英语词汇学纲要.doc

ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY: A GENERAL REVISION
Part 1: Define the following terms.
English lexicology
English lexicology is a branch ofl linguistics concerned with the vocabulary of the English language in respect to words and word equivalents.
word
A word may be defined as a fundamental unit of speech and a minimum free form;with a unity of sound and meaning(both lexical and grammatical meaning),capable of performing a given syntactic function.
vocabulary
native words
loan words
common words
literary words
archaic words
poetical words
colloquial words
slang words
technical words
function words
content words
basic word stock
neologism
obsolete words
morpheme
allomorph
free morpheme
bound morpheme
root
free root
bound root
affix
inflextional affix
derivational affix
prefix
suffix
hybrid
simple word
word-formation rules
stem
base
compounding
compound
pound
derivation
combining from
prefixation
suffixation
differentiating suffixes
conversion
functional shift
derivation by zero suffix
partial conversion
acronymy
initialism
acronym
clipping
blending
portmanteau word
back-formation
reduplication
words from proper names
neoclassical formation
conventionality
motivation
ic motivation
morphological motivation
semantic motivation
echoic word/onomatopoeic word
grammatical meaning
inflectional paradigm
lexical meaning
denotative meaning
connotative meaning
social or stylistic meaning
affective meaning
purr words
snarl words
componential anaylisis
semantic features/ponents
polysemy
primary meaning
cental meaning
radiation
concatenation
hmonymy
homonym
perfect homonym
homophone
homograph
synonymy
synonym
complete synonym
relative synonym
the double scale pattern of synonyms
the triple scale pattern of syonyms
antonmy
antonym
contraries
complementaries
conversives
root antonyms
derivational antonyms
marked member in tn antonymous pair
unmarked member in an antonymous pair
hyponymy
hypo