英语词汇学复习

英语词汇学复习的内容：

一、考试题形式分为：

Ⅰ.选择题(20分)：

完全是考书中的理论与例子的结合,即知识点等。1-9cahpters

Ⅱ.填空（30分）：

考定义概念。1-10chapters

Ⅲ.（20分）习语英译汉：

教材中汉语部分idioms: 习语的特点

Ⅳ.(10分) 论述题：

第三章为主

Ⅴ. 树形图（依据上下义关系作图）(20分)：

第二、六章

二、教材内容简介

三、复习内容

Introduction 部分

Lexicology 这门课算哪一种学科的分支: Lexicology is a branch of linguistics.

Lexicology和那些重要的学科建立了联系: 1)Morphology 2) Semantics 3) Stylistics 4) Etymology 5) Lexicography

研究lexicology 的两大方法:

1) Diachronic approach : 历时语言学

2) Synchronic approach : 共时语言学

e.g. wife 纵观历时语言学的方法论，woman 词义的变化算是词义变化的哪一种模式？Woman 的词义的变化是Narrowing or specialization

第一章词的概述；

1.识记：词的定义

2.声音与意义

3.声音与拼写

4.词汇

5.词汇的分类

What is word ?

词具有哪些特点？

词的特点也就是对词的名词解释。

1) A word is a minimal free form of a language;

2) A sound unity or a given sound ;

3) a unit of meaning;

4) a form that can function alone in a sentence.

以上词的四个特点也就是词的名词解释

词的分类（classification of a word）

词根据发音可以分为哪两种词？或者说词根据拼写可以分为哪两类词？

1) simple words 2) complex words

单音节词例子：

e.g. Man and fine are simple

多音节词例子：

e.g. Management, misfortune, blackmail

management 可以次划分为manage 和 -ment

misfortune 可以次划分为mis- 和 fortune

blackmail 次划分为black 和 mail

What is the relationship between sound and meaning?

1)There is ‘no logical relationship between the sound and actual thing.e.g. dog. cat

2)The relationship between them is conventional.

3) In different languages the same concept can be represented by different sounds.

What is relationship between sound and form?

1)The written form of a natural language is the written record of the oral form. Naturally the written form should agree with the oral form, such as English language.

2)This is fairly true of English in its earliest stage i.e. Old English

3)With the development of the language, more and more differences occur between the two.

What are the great changes that causes illogical relationship or irregularity between sound and form?

1) The internal reason for this is that the English alphabet was adopted from the Romans, which does not have a separate letter to represent each sound in the language so that some letters must do double duty or work together in combination.

2) Another reason is that the pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling over the years, and in some cases the two have drawn far apart.

3) A third reason is that some of the differences were created by the early scribes.

4) Finally comes the borrowing, which is an important channel of enriching the English vocabulary.

要记住以上四句话中的关键词：

1) influenced by Romans

2) Pronunciation changed

3) early scribes

4) borrowing

你能不能举出外来语对英语发音,拼写造成不一致的例子有哪些？

e.g. stimulus (L) ,fiesta (Sp) ,eureka (Gr), kimono (Jap)

外来语对英语造成的最大的影响就是‘sound and form ’不一致。

What is vocabulary?

Vocabulary refers to the total number of the words in a language, but it can stand for all the words used in a particular historical period.Vocabulary also refers to all the words of a given dialect, given book, a given discipline and the words possessed by an individual person. Classification of Words (本课的一个重点)

What is the classification of words? How to classify words in linguistics? Three criteria :

1)By use of frequency 2) By notion 3) By origin

By use of frequency 可划分为：

1)The basic word stock 2) Nonbasic word vocabulary