| 1 Introduction. Word, Vocabulary and Lexicology 1.1 The notion of 'word' 1.1.1 Do words exist? 1.1.2 Bloomfield's definition of word 1.1.3 Characteristics of words 1.2 The organization of English vocabulary 1.2.1 The syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations 1.2.2 Word classes 1.2.3 Lexical fields 1.3 Lexicology and other levels of linguistic analysis 1.3.1 Lexicology and phonology 1.3.2 Lexis and grammar：two forms of patterning 1.3.3 Lexicology and semantics 1.4 Summary Exercises 2 English Vocabulary：A Historical Perspective 2.1 The Indo-European language family 2.2 The English people and the English language 2.3 The development of English vocabulary 2.3.1 The Old English period 2.3.2 The Middle English period 2.3.3 Modern English period 2.4 Summary Exercises 3 Borrowing as a Source of English Word-Stock 3.1 The size of English word-stock 3.2 The native words of the English language 3.3 Borrowing an overview 3.4 Major sources of borrowing 3.4.1 Latin borrowings 3.4.2 Scandinavian influences 3.4.3 French loan words 3.4.4 Greek adoptions 3.5 Minor sources of borrowing 3.6 Influences of borrowings 3.7 Summary Exercises 4 Major Processes of Word Formation 4.1 Morpheme, root and affix 4.2 Derivation and compounding 4.3 Prefixation 4.4 Suffixation 4.5 Compounding 4.5.1 Basic features of compounds 4.5.2 Classification of compounds 4.5.3 The syntax of compounds 4.6 Summary Exercises 5 Minor Processes of Word Formation 5.1 Blending 5.2 Back-formation 5.3 Initialism 5.3.1 Abbreviation 5.3.2 Acronyms 5.4 Clipping 5.5 Aphesis 5.6 Analogy 5.6.1 Single words formed by analogy 5.6.2 Phrases formed by analogy 5.7 Reduplication 5.8 Words from proper names 5.8.1 Words from names of people 5.8.2 Words from names of places 5.8.3 Words from names of books 5.8.4 Words from trademarks 5.9 Summary Exercise 6 Word Meaning and Meaning Relations 6.1 Conventionality versus motivation 6.2 Meanings of meaning 6.3 Four kinds of meaning 6.3.1 Denotation and reference 6.3.2 Denotation and sense 6.3.3 Denotation and connotation 6.4 Meaning relations 6.4.1 Synonymy 6.4.2 Antonymy 6.4.3 Hierarchical meaning relations — hyponymy and meronymy 6.5 Semantic field and componential analysis 6.6 Word meaning and context 6.6.1 Types of context 6.6.2 The role of context 6.7 Summary Exercises 7 Words in Use 7.1 The OED model 7.1.1 Core vocabulary 7.2 The register model 7.2.1 Dialects 7.2.2 Diatypes 7.3 Summary Exercises 8 Multi-word Lexical Units: Collocation, Lexical Phrase and Idiom 8.1 The research tradition of prefabricated language 8.2 Collocations 8.2.1 Meaning by collocation 8.2.2 The typology of collocations 8.2.3 Investigating lexis: corpus approach to collocations 8.3 Lexical phrases 8.3.1 The definition of lexical phrase 8.3.2 Functions of lexical phrases 8.3.3 Lexical phrases and language teaching 8.4 Idioms 8.4.1 The definition and main features of idioms 8.4.2 The categorization of idioms 8.4.3 The meaning of idioms 8.5 Implications of linguistic prefabrication 8.6 Summary Exercises Appendix 1 Common Prefixes Appendix 2 Common Suffixes Appendix 3 Common Roots Appendix 4 Lexicology Terms (English-Chinese) Key to Exercises References |
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