英语词汇学复习要点.doc

填空、选择、判断等:
Features of word:
1、a minimal free form of language
2、a sound unity
3、a unit of meaning
4、a form that can function alone in a sentence
Classification of English words: native words and borrowed words.
Meaning and concept: meaning is closely to a concept. A concept is the base of the meaning of a word. A word is used to label a concept.
The Indo-European language family:
1、Eastern sets: Balto-slavic, Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Albanian
2、Western sets: Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Germanic, Hittite, Tocharian
Affixes: the affix is a collective term for a type of formative that can be used only when added to another morpheme. They may be divided into inflectional and derivational types.
Roots: root is a form which is not further analyzable, either in terms of derivational or inflectional morphology.
Stem: is of concern only when dealing with inflectional morphology.
Base: is any form to which affixes of any kind can be added; it may also be defined as a form to which a rule of word-formation is applied.
Backformation: is a process of word-formation by which a word is created by the deletion of a supposed affix.
Reduplication: is a minor type of word-formation by which pound word is created by the repetition of the same element with little or no change. Words make this way are known as reduplication.
Abbreviation(shortening):
Initialisms: are words fo