英语专业英语词汇学笔记.docx
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英语专业英语词汇学笔记
1.Whatispolysemy?
Havingmultiplemeaningsthatarerelated.
2.Whatarethetwodifferentwaysoforganisingpolysemouswords?
Explainthem
1)Thediachronicapproachbeginswiththeprimarymeaningandthenarrangetheothermeanings(derivedmeanings)intheorderinwhichtheydeveloped.
2)Thesynchronicapproachbeginswiththemostpopularmeaning(centralmeaning)andthenarrangetheothermeanings(marginalmeanings)inorderofpopularity.
3.Whatarethetwodifferentwaysinwhichpolysemydevelops?
Explainthem
1)Radiation.Secondarymeaningsareindependentfromoneanotherandarederiveddirectlyfromtheprimarymeaning.
2)Concatenation.Secondarymeaningsareconnectedandderivefromprimarymeaningthroughsuccessiveshiftsofmeaningfromonesecondarymeaningtoanother.
4.Whatishomonymy?
Homonymsareworksdifferentinmeaningbuteitheridenticalbothinsoundorspellingoridenticalonlyinsoundorspelling.
5.Giveanexampleofaperfecthomonym,ahomophoneandahomograph
1)perfecthomonym同音同形date日期/date红枣
2)homophone同音异形Knew/new,meet/meat
3)homograph异音同形record(v.)/record(n.)
6.Giveanexampleoftherhetoricaluseofhomonymy
HiJack(你好杰克)–hijack(打劫)
7.Whatisthedifferencebetweenpolysemyandhomonymy?
Giveanexampletoillustratethedifference
1)Polysemyisaboutconnectionofmeanings.Bookcanmeanabookasin“Ireadabook”,and“Ibookahotelroom”.Thesecondmeaningisrelatedtothefirstonebecauseinthepasthotelstaffwillwritethecustomers’informationonabookwhenreservingaroom.
2)homonymyisaboutform.Liecanmeannotbeinghonestorbeinginahorizontalposition.Thesetwomeaningshavethesameformbutnoconnection.
8.Classifythefollowingpairsofantonymsintocomplementaries(binaries),contraries(gradable)orconverses(relational).Explainwhy
1)Good/bad,contraries
2)odd/even,complementaries
3)above/below,converses
4)clean/dirty,contraries
5)remember/forget,complementaries?
6)old/young,contraries
7)before/after,converses
9.Whatishyponymy?
Giveanexample
Themeaningofamorespecificwordisincludedinthatofamoregeneralword.
例Floweristhesuperordinateterm,roseisthesubordinateterm.
10.Whatissynonymy?
Synonymsarewordsdifferentinsoundandspellingbutnearlyorexactlyalikeinessentialmeaning.
11.Whatisthedifferencebetweenabsoluteandnear(relative)synonyms?
1)Absolutesynonyms–interchangeableineveryway
2)Nearsynonyms–similarindenotationbuthavedifferentshadesofmeaningordifferentdegreesofagivenquality.
12.Whataresomeofthereasonswhysynonymsexist?
1)Borrowingfromotherlanguages
2)DialectsandregionalEnglish
3)Figurativeandeuphemisticuseofwords
4)Coincidencewithidiomaticexpressions
13.Whataresomeofthefactorsthatdiscriminatebetweenrelativesynonyms?
Useexamples
1)Rangeofmeaning.“timid”ismoreextensivebecauseitcanbeusedtodescribethestateofmindatatimeandthedisposition,but“timorous”onlydescribethedisposition.
2)Degreeofintensity.A“wealthy”personhasmuchmoremoneythana“rich”person.
3)Differencesinstylisticfeatures.“ask”isusedcommonlyandtendtobecolloquial.“question”ismoreformal.
14.(ThedevelopmentofEnglish)WhatwasthelanguagespokenintheBritishIslesbeforeEnglish?
HowwasEnglishintroduced?
Celtic.GermanictribeinvadedandsettledafterRoman.Theybroughttheirownculture.ItwascalledAnglo-saxon(thenameoftwotribes)andalsocalledoldEnglish.
15.WhatarethethreephasesoftheEnglishlanguageandwhatweretheirtimeperiods?
Whateventsmarkedthetransitionofonephasetoanother?
a)OldEnglish(450-1150)——NormanconquestfromFrancein1066,buttherealdevelopmentofmiddleEnglishstartedinthe12thcenturybecausetherulingclassspokeAngloFrenchandthepeasantsspokeAnglo-Saxonsoittookquitealongtimeforthemtointermix.
b)MiddleEnglish(1150-1500)——duringRenaissancetherewasanexplosionofinformationandknowledgeaboutAncientGreeceandRoman.Peoplestatedtoreadsoideasspread.GreekandLatinwordsstartedenteringEnglish.Besides,printingwasinvented,morecanreadandwritebooks.
c)ModernEnglish(1500–present)
16.Overitshistory,Englishhasevolvedfromahighlyinflectedlanguagetoanearlynon-inflectedlanguage.Whatisthedifference?
GiveanexampleofinflectioninEnglish
Inflectionmeanstomodifyawordtoindicategrammaticalrelations.Alotofwordsinahighlyinflectedlanguagehaveendingorformchangesinordertoshowitsgrammaticalfunction.Butaweaklyinflectedlanguagehasfewerchanges.AsEnglishdeveloped,ithaschangedfromahighlyinfectedlanguagetoaweeklyone.
17.WhatarethemostimportantlanguagesthatEnglishhasborrowedfrom?
Why?
1)French–Normanconquest
2)Latin–Renaissance,alotofLatinbookweretranslatedintoEnglish
3)Scandinavia–Vikings(9century)influencedoldEnglish
18.WhatisthedifferencebetweenaContentWordandaFunctionalword?
Giveanexampleofeach.
•Contentwordsarethoseareaboutsomething.例nation,earth.
•Functionalwordsarethoseusedtoexpressrelations.例the,and.
19.ExplaintwopropertiesofBasicwordsandgiveexamples
1)Productivity.Basicwordsareveryproductivebecausethetaremostlyrootwordsormonosyllabicwords.Theycanbeusedaloneandareoftenusedtoformnowwordswithotherrootsandaffixes.例foot-football-footprint
2)Manybasicwordstakepartinanumberofsetexpressions.例heart-byheart–fromthebottomofone’sheart-loseheart
20.Whatisadenizenword?
Giveanexample
Denizensarewordsthatwereborrowedalongtimeago,theylookandsoundlikeanativeword.
例‘pork’fromtheFrench‘porc’
21.Whatisanalienword?
Giveanexample
Aliensareborrowedwordswhichhavekepttheiroriginalpronunciationandspelling.
例café,fiancée
22.Whatisatranslationloan?
Giveanexample
TranslationloansarewordsandexpressionsformedfromexistingmaterialintheEnglishlanguagebuttranlatethemeaningorthesoundfromanotherlanguage.
例‘blackhumour’fromtheFrench‘humournoir’
例‘tea’fromtheChinese
23.Whatisasemanticloan?
Giveanexample
SemanticloansarewhereawordalreadyexistsinnativeEnglishbutborrowsanewmeaningfromanotherlanguage.
例‘dumb’hascometomean‘stupid’becauseoftheGermanword‘dumm’
24.(ThestructureofWords)Whatisamorpheme?
Amorphemeistheminimalmeaningfulunitoflanguage.
25.Whatisthedifferencebetweenamorphemeandamorph?
•Morphemeisaboutmeaning.
•Morphisaboutshapeandsound.
Morphemesareabstract,andarerealizedinspeechbymorphs.
26.Whatisthedifferencebetweenaboundmorphemeandafreemorpheme?
Giveanexampleofeachkindofmorpheme
1)Morphemeswhichcannotoccurasseparatewordsarebound.例dis-,mis-.
2)Morphemeswhichareindependentofothermorphemesarefree.例man,dog.
27.Whatisthedifferencebetweenaderivationalmorphemeandaninflectionalmorpheme?
Giveanexampleofeachkindofmorpheme
1)Derivationalmorphemescanderivenewwords.例football,slowly
2)Inflectionalmorphemesdon’tcreatenewwordsandjustindicatesyntacticrelationships.例-ed,-ing,-er,-est,-s
28.Whatisthedifferencebetweenacontentmorphemeandagrammaticalmorpheme?
Giveanexampleofeachkindofmorpheme
1)Contentmorphemeshavecontentandcanbeusedtoderivenewwords.=derivationalmorphemes.
2)Grammaticalmorphemesaregrammaticalmarkers,includingInflectionalmorphemes&freemorphemes.例while,where,they
29.Whatisanaffix?
Anaffixisaformthatareattachedtowordstomodifymeaningorfunction.
30.Whatisthedifferencebetweenaderivationalandaninflectionalaffix?
Giveanexampleofeach
1)Inflectionalaffixdonotcreatenewwords,andindicatesyntacticrelationshipsbetweenwords.例–ed,talked
2)Derivationalaffixderivenewwords.例–less,careless.non-,non-smoker.
31.Whatisaroot?
Giveanexample
Arootisawordelementthatcontainsthemaincomponentofmeaninginaword.Itisthatpartofawordthatremainswhenallaffixeshavebeenremoved.
例:
internationalists→nationImpracticality→pratice
32.Whatisastem?
Giveanexample
Astemisthatpartofthewordformthatremainswhenallinflectionalaffixeshavebeenremoved.
例:
internationalists→nationalists
Undesirables→desirable
33.Whatisabase?
Giveanexample
Abaseisaformtowhichaffixesofanykindcanbeadded.
例:
possible,understand
34.(WordFormation)Whatisblending?
thecombinationofpartsoftwowordsorawordplusapartofanotherword.
35.Giveanexampleofblendingandexplainhowthewordhasbeenformed
Smog=smoke+fog
36.Whatisclipping?
apartoftheoriginalwordisremoved.
37.Giveanexampleofclippingandexplainhowthewordhasbeenformed
Exam-examination
38.Whatisacronymy?
newwordsareformedbyjoiningtheinitiallettersofcompositenamesorphrases
39.Giveanexampleofaninitialismandexplainhowthewordisformed
Initialism——pronouncedletterbyletter.例:
BBC,CCTV
40.Giveanexampleofatrueacronymandexplainhowthewordisformed
Trueacronym——pronouncedasanormalword.例:
NATO,AIDS
41.Whatisthecommonizationofapropername?
Giveanexample
Wordscomefrompropernames.例“rugby”from“RugbySchool”,whereitwasfirstplayed.
42.WhatarethethreemostproductivewaysofformingnewwordsintheEnglishlanguage?
Affixation,compounding,conversion.
43.Whatisaffixation?
Giveanexample
Theformationofnewwordsbyaddingword-formingorderivationalaffixestobases.
44.Whatiscompounding?
Giveanexample
Theformingofnewwordsbyjoiningtwoormorebases.例hotdog,blueprint
45.Giveanexampleoft
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