词汇学复习资料.doc

A2013年词汇学复习资料
1. Define the following terms (30%):
1)Lexicology(词汇学)is the study of the vocabulary(词汇)or lexicon(辞典)of a given deals not only with simple words,but also plex pound words(复合词).
2)Morphology(形态学)is the study of the forms of words and ponents(成分).The major purpose of morphological(形态学的)study is to look at morphemes(词素)and their arrangements in word formation.
3)Semantics(语义学)is the study of tries to explain and describe meaning in natural language.
4)Etymology(语源学)is the study of the whole history of words.
5)Lexicography(词典编纂)involves the writing pilation(编辑)of dictionaries,especially dealing with the principles that underlie the process piling(编译)and editing(编辑)dictionaries.
6)The word is an uninterruptible(不间断的)meaningful unit of linguistic(语言学的)structure consisting of one or more morphemes(词素).
7)English words can be classified into lexical words(content words)(实词)and grammatical words (function words)(虚词).
8)The semantic(语义学的)field theory(语义场理论)takes the view that the vocabulary of a language is not simply a listing of independent items(条款),but anized into areas or fields,the members of which are joined together by mon ponent(成分),such as the concept(概念)of color or kinship(亲属/亲密关系).
9)Morpheme(词素)is the smallest meaningful unit which may constitute(构成)words or parts of words,an arbitrary(任意的)union(联合)of a sound and a meaning