英語詞彙學教程

21世紀到來,科學技術日新月異,信息知識瞬息萬變。近幾年來,詞彙學領域出現了不少新的研究成果。為了緊跟時代步伐,與時俱進,筆者感到有必要對《教程》進行修訂。本書把原第三章的某些內容獨立成章,進行了重寫。第二章新增兩節,闡述當代英語的特徵和發展趨勢。對辭書部分進行了較大的改動,不僅增加了20世紀90年代未期和21世紀前三年出現的新辭書,還專闢一節詳盡地介紹四部優秀詞典,大增加了該書的時效性和實用價值。 ^[1] 

Chapter 1 The Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulanr

1.1 The Definition of a Word

1.2 Vocabulary

1.3 Sound and Meaning

1.4 Sound and Form

1.5 Classification of Words

1.Basic Word Stock and Nonbasic Vocabulary

2.Content Words and Functional Words

3.Native Words and Borrowed Words

Questions and Tasks

Chapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary

2.1 The Indo-European Language Family

2.2 Three Phases of the Historical DeveloDment

1.Old English(450?1150)

2.Middle English(1150--1500)

3.Modern English(1500 up to the present)

2.3 General Characteristics

1.Receptivity,Adaptability and HeteFOgeneity

2.Simplicity of Inflection

3.Relatively Fixed Word?order

2.4 Foreign Elements in the English Vocabularv

1.Latin

2.Greek

3. French

4. Scandinavian

5. Other Foreign Elements

2.5 Growth of Contemporary English Vocabulary

2.6 Modes of Vocabulary Development

Questions and Tasks

Chapter 3 Morphological Structure of English Words

3.1 Morphemes

3.2 Morphs and Allomorphs

3.3 Classifying Morphemes

1. Free versus Bound Morphemes

2. Derivational versus Inflectional Morphemes

3. Content versus Grammatical Morphemes

3.4 Identifying Morphemes

3.5 Morpheme and Word-formation

1. Affix

2. Root, Stem, Base

Questions and Tasks

Chapter 4 Word Formation

4.1 Affixation

1. Prefixation

2. Suffixation

4.2 Compounding

1. Characteristics of Compounds

2. Formation of Compounds

4.3 Conversion

1. Conversion to Nouns

2. Conversion to Verbs

3. Conversion to Adjectives

4.4 Blending

4.5 Clipping

4.6 Acronymy

1. Initialisms

2. Acronyms

4.7 Back-formation

4.8 Sound Reduplication

4.9 Commonization of Proper Names

Questions and Tasks

Chapter 5 Word Meaning and Componential Analysis

5.1 Word Meaning

I. Reference

2. Concept

3. Sense

5.2 Motivation

1. Onomatopoeic Motivation

2. Morphological Motivation

3. Semantic Motivation :

4; Etymological Motivation

5.3 Types of Meaning

1. Grammatical Meaning and Lexical Meaning

2. Conceptual Meaning and Associative Meaning

5.4 Componential Analysis

Questions and Tasks

Chapter 6 Sense Relations

6.1 Polysemy

1. Two Approaches to Polysemy

2. Two Processes of Development

6.2 Homonymy

1. Types of Homonyms

2. Origins of Homonyms

3. Differentiation of I-brmnyms frcxn Polysmiants

4. Rhetoric Features of Homonyms

6.3 Synonymy

1. Definition of Synonyms

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