英语词汇学教程

Chapter 1 Lexicology and Words

1.1 Introduction

1.2 What Is Lexicology?

1.2.1 Morphology and Semantics

1.2.2 Etymology and Lexicography

1.3 What 0s a Word?

1.3.1 Difficulties in the Definition ofthe Word

1.3.2 Major Features ofWords

1.4 Words in Linguistic Analysis

1.5 Word Classes

1.6 Lexical and Grammatical Words

1.7 Words and Semantic Fields

Exercises

Chapter 2 Some Basic Concepts and Word Meanings

2.1Introduction

2.2 Morpheme，Lexeme and Morph

2.2.1 Morpheme

2.2.2 Lexeme

2.2.3 Morph

2.2.4 Types ofMorphemes

2.3 Word Meanings

2.3.1 Denotation and Reference

2.3.2 Denotation and Sense

2.4 Seven types of Meaning

2.4.1 Conceptual Meaning

2.4.2 Connotative Meaning

2.4.3 Social and Affective Meanings

2.4.4 Reflected and Collocative Meanings

2.4.5 Thematic Meaning

2.5 Root and Stem

2.6 Polysemy

2.7 Homonymy

Exercises

Chapter 3 The Origins of EnglishWords

3.1Introduction

3.2 The Development of English

3.3 The Historical Periods of English

3.3.1 Old English Period(450-1066)

3.3.2 The Middle English Period(1066-1500)

3.3.3 EarlyModern English Period(1500.1800)

3.3.4 The Modern English Period(1800一present)

3.4 American English

3.5 Native English Vocabulary

3.6 Major Influences on English

3.6.1 The Scandinavian Influence

3.6.2 The Norman Conquest

3.6.3 The Latin Influence

3.7 Borrowings in English

3.7.1 Latin words in English

3.7.2 Greek and French Loanwords

3.7.3 German，Dutch and Italian Loanwords

3.7.4 Loanwords from dle East

3.7.5 Loanwords from Other Sources

3.8 The Size of English Vocabulary

3.9 Creation of New English Words

3.9.2 Onomatopoeic words and Ejaculations

3.9.3 Wbrd formation

Exercises

Chapter 4 Word Formation in English

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Inflection and Derivation

4.2.1 Definition ofInflection

4.2.2 Functions of Inflection

4.2.3 DerivationalAffix

4.2.4 Functions of Derivations

4.2.5 Types ofDerivational Affix

4.3 Compounding

4.3.1 Definition of Compounding

4.3.2 Characteristics of Compounds

4.3.3 Common Patterns of compounds

4.4 Other Word.formation Processes

4.4.2 Blending

4.4.3 Shortenings

4.5 Backformation

4.6 Words from Proper Names and Metanalysis

4.6.1 Words from Proper Names

4.6.2 Metanalysis

Exercises

Chapter 5 Sense Relations

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Characteristics of Sense Relations

5.3 Synonymy

5.3.1 Two Types of Synonymy

5.3.2 Difference Among Synonyms

5.4 Antonymy

5.4.1 Gradable Antonyms

5.4.2 Complementary Antonyms

5.4.3 Converse antonyms

5.5 Hyponymy

5.6 Meronymy

5.7 Collocation

5.7.1 Free and Fixed Combinations

5.7.2 Grammatical Collocations

5.7.3 Lexical Collocations

5.7.4 0ther Features of Collocation

5.8 Metaphorical Extension

Exercises

Chapter 6 Idioms Multiword Verbs and Proverbs

6.1Introduction

6.2 Idioms

6.2.1 Classification ofIdioms

6.2.2 Different Aspects of Idioms

6.3 Multiword verbs

6.4 Proverbs

Exercises

Chapter 7 English Dictionaries

7.1Introduction

7.2 Organization of the Entry

7.2.1 Headword

7.2.2 Pronunciation

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