《现代英语词汇学教程》是《求知高等学校英语专业系列教材》之一,它面向英语专业本科学生,对词汇学的一些传统内容进行了合理的整合,同时又吸收了近年来词汇研究的诸多新成果,涵盖了词汇与语法的关系、英语词汇的词源学研究、构词法、词的意义及意义关系、词的语用研究、多词表达及利用语料库考察词汇型式等主要论题,还附有对中国英语学习者学习词汇十分有用的一些工具性内容,如常用词根表、词缀表等。是英语学习者不可或缺的专业书籍。
Chapter 1Introduction: Word, Vocabulary and ~cology
I.THE NOTION OF 'WORD' ~
1. Do Words Exist
2.Bloomfield's Definition of Word
3.Characteristics of Words
lI.THE ORGANIZATION OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY
1.The Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations
2.Word Classes
3.Lexical Fields
m.LEXICOLOGY AND OTHER LEVELS OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
1.Lexicology and phonology
2.Lexis and Grammar:Two Forms of Patterning
3.Lexicology and Semantics
IV. SUMMARY ~
Exercises.-.;
Chapter 2 English Vocabulary: A HistoricalPerspective
I.THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY ~
II. THE ENGLISH PEOPLE AND THE ENGLISHLANGUAGE
m. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY
i.The Old English Period
2.The Middle English Period
3.Modem English Period
IV. SUMMARY
Exercises
Chapter 3 Borrowing as a Source of EnglishWord-Stock
I. THE SIZE OF ENGLISH WORD-STOCK
If. THE NATIVE WORDS OF THE ENGLISHLANGUAGE
m. BORROWING: AN OVERVIEW
IV. MAJOR SOURCES OF BORROWING
I.LatinBorrowings
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