词汇学问题.doc

1 英语词汇学问题库(一) C1 A General Survey to English Vocabulary 1. What is lexicology? 2. What is the nature and scope of English Lexicology? 3. What subjects is English Lexicology correlated with?And to what extent? 4. Why should a student of English study English Lexicology? 5. What isa word? 6. What are the reasons of more and more inconsist a nces between sound and form.. 7. What is vocabulary? 8. What are the three stages of development of the English vocabulary? 9. Illustrate the relationship bet ween sound and me a ning with examples. 10. What are the three main criteria for the classification of English words? 11. What mon word ( 通用词, literary word ( 文学词) colloquial word ( 口语词) ,slang word ( 俚语词) jargon (行话) , argot (黑话) , neologism (新词语) ? Give examples. 12. What is hybrid (混种词) ? 13. How do you account for the role of native words in English in relation to loan-words? 14. What are the fundamental features of the basic word stock? What is the importance of basic word stock? 15. What are the major causes of the rapid growth of present-day English vocabulary? 16. What are function words and content words?What are the differences between them? 17. What are the characteristic features of the English vocabulary? 18. What are native words?What are loan words? 19. What is meant by plexity of the English vocabulary? 20. What is meant by the Indo-European family of Languages?How many g