2012 词汇学复习 要点.doc

2012年Fill in the blanks with appropriate lexical terms. 1. Middle English refers to the language spoken from 1150 to____. 2. The four major foreign contributors to the English vocabulary in earlier times were French, Latin, _________ and _________. 3. is the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words. 4. Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to their position in a word. Such alternative morphs are known as . 5. The morphemes which have complete meanings in themselves and can be used as free grammatical units in sentences are called . The morphemes which cannot occur as separate words are called . 6. Affixes are forms that are attached to words or word elements to modify meaning or function, which can be usually further divided into such as “re-” in “retell” and such as “-ly” in “friendly”. 7. There are generally two approaches to the study of words. From a___________ point of view, words can be studied at a point in time, disregarding whatever changes might be taking place. 8. There are generally two major factors that cause changes in word meaning. They are extra-linguistic factors and linguistic factors; the extra-linguistic factors include three reasons: ____________， ____________ and ________. 9. Radiation and ________are the two coinages which the development of word meaning follows from monosemy to polysemy. 10. When a new word appears for the first time, the author usually manages to give __________ in the context to help the readers. 1. Middle English refers to the language spoken from 1150 to____. 2. The four major foreign contributors to the English vocabulary in earlier times were French, Latin, _________ and _________. 3. is the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words. 4. Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to their position in a word. Such alternative morphs are known a