8.29英语词汇学一章引言.pptVIP

English Lexicology;Coursebook and references;Words and Vocabulary;;;;;;;;;;?? ;;;;;;;;;;6.2.1 All national character: Natural phenomena like: rain hill, snow, water summer; Human organs like: head , foot, face, mother, father, son…Names of plants and animals like: pine, grass, tree, horse, cat… Action, size, domain, state like come , go, eat, hear, good, old , young, heavy, white, black…Numerals, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions like one, ten, I , you, who, in, on, under, till,,, ;6.2.2 Stability . Words of basic word stocks have been in use for centuries, e.g man, fire, mountain, sun…Some changes have actually happen Many new words to denote new things and modern way of life emerge frequently in the word stock. So many words also are dropping out. ;Words belonging to the basic word stock often possess more than one meaning because most of them have undergone semantic changes in the course of use and become polysemous. ;;;Non-basic vocabulary;Non-basic vocabulary;Non-basic vocabulary;Non-basic vocabulary;;;Exercise: 2) Of the five characteristics listed for the basic word stock, the most important is a. all national character b. productivity c. Polysemy d. Collocability;To recap:;《英语词汇学》有待探讨的论文题目;;;1. How many approaches of word-formation? The expansion of vocabulary in modern English depends chiefly on word-formation. There is a variety of means being at work now. The most productive are affixation, compounding and conversion;The structure of derivatives Structurally, a word is not the smallest unit because many words can be separated into even smallest meaningful units. Take “denatura- lization” for example. This word can be broken down into “de”, “nature”, “al”,”ize”, “ation”, each having meaning of its own. ; ;What’s morpheme? Free / Bound morpheme? In view of word-formation, the morpheme is seen as ‘ the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words’ ---( Cristal 1985) Morpheme is the smallest component of a word which c