Chapter 3 Word Formation
第三章 英语词汇学
Chapter 3
Word Formation Ⅰ
It seems to be generally agreed that a word is the smallest unit of a language that stands alone to communicate meaning. However, structurally, a word is not the smallest unit because many word can be separated into even smaller meaningful unit.
Inflectional affixes
9. Inflectional morphemes or Inflectional affixes —— Affixes attaches to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are inflectional， thus known as inflectional morphemes. The number of inflectional affixes is small and stable. 加在词尾表示语法关系的词缀发生曲折变化， 因此叫内部曲折词缀。 内部曲折词缀的数量少而且稳定。
3.3.2 Bound morphemes
6. Bound Morphemes —— The morphemes cannot occur as separate words. They are bound to other morphemes to form words. Bound morphemes are found in derived words. 粘附词素——它们主要粘附在别的词素上才能构成词。 粘附词素主要出现在派生词里。 e.g. recollection （re + collect + ion） collect – free morpheme re-and –ion are bound morphemes. （include bound root and affix）
词汇学全十章
Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulary1.What is a word?/ The definition of word.（名词解释）A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.2. The relationship between sound and meaning.（填空或简答）The relationship between sound and meaning are arbitrary and conventional. （这两个单词要会拼写）3.Why are there differences between sound and form?/ Explain the reasons that sound isdifferent from form.（简答）1）The internal reason for this is that the English alphabet was adopted from the Romans, which does not have a separate letter to represent each sound in the language so that some letters must do double duty or work together in combination.2）Another reason is that the pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling over the years3）A third reason is that some of the differences were created by the early scribes.4）Finally comes the borrowing, which is an important channel of enriching the English vocabulary.4.V ocabulary(简答)All the words in a language make up its vocabulary. The term ‘vocabulary’ is used in different senses. Not only can it refer to the total number of the words in a language, but it can stand for all the words used in a particular historical period. It can also refer to all the words of a given dialect,a given book, a given discipline and the words possessed by an individual person.5.The general estimate of the present-day English vocabulary is over one million words. Classification of words(P10这一小节是重中之重，大题小题都会出到，请结合课本认真复习)6.分类标准(选择填空)Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by use frequency, into contents words and functional words by notion, and into native words and borrowed words by origin.7.The characteristics of basic words stock (简答)1)All national character2)Stability3)Productivity4)Polysemy5)Collocability8.All national character is the most important of all features that may differentiate words ofcommon use form all others. （选择或填空）9.nonbasic words(名词解释)1)Terminology (术语) consist of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academicareas.(重点)2)Jargon（行话）refers to the specialized vocabulary by which members of particular arts,sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves.（重点）3)Slang（了解）4)Argot （黑话）generally refers to the jargon of criminals.5)Dialectal words （方言）are words used only by speakers of the dialect in question.6)Archaisms （古语）are words or forms that were once in common use but are now restrictedonly to specialized or limited use.7)Neologisms（新词）are newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken onnew meanings.（重点）10.Content words denote clear notions and thus are known as notional words. (名词解释或填空)11.Functional words do not have notions of their own. (名词解释或填空)12.Content words include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and numerals.13.Functional words are also called empty words or form words. They include prepositions,conjunctions, auxiliaries, articles and pronouns.14.the functions of native words:Native words form the mainstream of the basic word stock and stand at the core of the language. Therefore, what is true of the basic word stock is also true of native words.15.Apart from the characteristics mentioned of the basic word stock, in contrast to borrowedwords, native words have two other features: (选择填空或简答)1)Neutral in style2)Frequent in use 要注意native words一共有5+2=7个特点16.外来语的分类：(选择填空或简答)According to the degree of assimilation and manner of borrowing, we can bring the loan-words under four classes.1)denizens2)aliens3)Translation-loans4)Semantic-loans17.Denizens are words borrowed early in the past and now well assimilated into the Englishlanguage. （名词解释）18.Aliens are borrowed words which have retained their original pronunciation and spelling. （名词解释）19.课本第20页练习中的选择、判断、填空都要仔细看，可能会出到原题Chapter 2 The Development of The English Vocabulary1.英语的三个发展阶段及其时间（简答，填空，选择，三个阶段及其时间都要记住）1)Old English (450-1150)2)Middle English (1150-1500)3)Modern English (1500-up to now)2.Now people generally refer to Anglo-Saxon as Old English （选择，填空）3.Old English has a vocabulary of about 50,000 to 60,000words. It was highly inflectedlanguage just like modern German. （古英语的特点，选择，填空）4.Middle English retained much fewer inflection. If we say that Old English was a fullendings, Middle English was one of leveled endings.(中期英语的特点，选择，填空)5.In modern English, word endings were mostly lost with just a few exceptions. It can beconcluded that English has evolved from a synthetic language (Old English) to the present analytic language. (现代英语的特点，选择，填空)6.There are three main sources of new words:1)the rapid development of modern science and technology2)social, economic and political changes3)the influence of other cultures and languages7.Modes of vocabulary development (重点，简答)1）Creation2）Semantic change3）Borrowing8.Creation is the most important way of vocabulary expansion.9.第33页课后题中的天空、判断好好看看Chapter 3 Word Formation 11.morpheme: the morpheme is ‘the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words.’ (名词解释)2.allomorphs: Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to theirposition in a word. Such alternative morphs are known as allomorphs.(名词解释)3.types of morphemes （要求会画42页的表）4.free morpheme: Morphemes which are independent of other morphemes are considered to befree. (名词解释)5.We might see that free morphemes are free root.6.bound morphemes: morphemes which cannot occur as separate words are bound. (名词解释)7.bound root: a bound root is that part of the word that carries the fundamental meaning just likea free root. It is a bound form and has to combine with other morphemes to make words. (名词解释)8.what is affixes? Illustrate it with examples. 论述题,这是个重点，课本第41页整页，按上课时画的来回答9. A root is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed withhold total loss ofidentity. (名词解释)10.A stem may consist of a single root morpheme as in iron or of two root morphemes as in acompound like handcuff. It can be a root morpheme plus one or more affixational morphemes as in mouthful, underestimate.11.we will use stem only because it can replace root and also refer to any form which is largerthan a root.12.第44页课后题三个都要好好看一下Unit 4 Word Formation II1.The expansion of vocabulary in modern English depends chiefly on word-formation. Themost productive are affixation, compounding and conversation.（选择，填空）2.Affixation is generally defined as the formation of words by adding word-forming orderivation affixes to stems. This process is also known as derivation. (名词解释)3.Prefixation is the formation of new words by adding prefixes to stems. (名词解释)4.Prefixes do not generally change the word-class of the stem but only modify its meaning.(前缀的特点)5.We classify prefixes on a semantic basis into nine groups:1)Negative prefixes:2)Reversative prefixes3)Pejorative prefixes: mal-, mis-, pseudo-4)Prefixes of degree or size5)Prefixes of orientation and attitude6)Locative prefixes7)Prefixes of time and order8)Number prefixes9)Miscellaneous prefixes（这九种及其例子都要记住，选择题给出例子要知道是属于哪种前缀）6.Suffixes is the formation of new words by adding suffixes to stems. （名词解释）7.Suffixes has only a small semantic role, their primary function being to change thegrammatical function of stems. In other words, they mainly change the word class. (后缀的特点)8.记住几种后缀及其例子，给出一个后缀要选出是什么意义的后缀pounding: Compounding, also called composition, is the formation of new words byjoining two or more stems. Words formed in this way are called compoundings.（名词解释）pounds can be written solid, hyphenated and open.11.Characteristics of compounds/ The differences between compounds and free words (简答)1)Phonetic features2)Semantic features3)Grammatical features12.动词复合词的两种构成形式：(简答)1）Conversation2）Backformation13.Conversation is the formation of new words by conversation words of one class to anotherclass. (名词解释)14.短语动词转换成名词的两种方法：1)Words like hand-out, stand-by are all converted from phrasal verbs. Such conversation isvery common in English. The examples cited here keep their original order, hand-out from hand out, stand-by from stand by.2)Sometimes, when a phrasal verb is turned into a noun, the verb and particle should beinverted.15. Characteristics of full conversation: a noun fully converted from an adjective has all the characteristics of nouns. It can take an indefinite article or –(e) to indicate singular or plural number.16. 熟记以下例子，给出例子，要知道是属于完全转类，一般出选择题或判断题：Common adjectives:a white; a native; finals; drinkables; a liberal; a Republican; necessaries; valuablesParticiples and others:a given; a drunk; young marrieds; newly-weds17. Characteristics of words partially conversation:Nouns partially converted from adjectives do not possess all the qualities a noun does. They must be used together with definite articles. What’s more, they retain some of the adjective features18. 部分转类例子（同16）the poor, the rich, the young, the wounded, the poorer, the more affluent, the most corrupt19. Blending is the formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word. (名词解释)20. Four groups of blends(简答)1) head + tail2) head +head3) head +word4) word +tail21. examples: (选择或判断，要求同前)motel (head + tail)sitcom(head + head)medicare (head +word)22. clipping is to shorten a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains instead. (名词解释)23. Four common types of clipping (简答)1) Front clipping2) Back clipping3) Front and back clipping4) Phrase clipping24. examples(要求同前)quake, phone (front clipping)flu, fridge, (front and back clipping)pub, pop, zoo (phrase clipping)25. Acronymy is the process of forming new words by joining the initial letters of names of social and political organizations or special noun phrases and technical terms.（名词解释）26. Initialisms are words pronounced letter by letter. (首字母缩略词)Acronyms are words formed from initial letters but pronounced as a normal word. (首字母拼音词)27. examples：VOA, c/o, p.c. TV (Initialisms)AIDS, N-bomb (Acronyms)28. Back-formation is the method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes.(名词解释)29. examples:donate, beggar, babysitter (back-formation)30. Words from Proper Names include names of people, names of places, names of books and trade names.31. examples:Faraday, Ohm, Volta, Quixote (names of people)China (names of places)Utopia, odyssey, Babbit (names of books)Nylon, orlon, Dacron, rayon (trdaenames)31.课本第73页练习，选择，填空和判断都要仔细看Chapter 5 Word Meaning1.Reference is the relationship between language and the world. (名词解释)2.Concept, which is beyond language, is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objectiveworld in the human mind. It is universal to all men alike regardless of culture, race, language and so on whereas meaning belongs to language, so is restricted to language use. (名词解释)3.Sense denotes the relationships inside the language. (名词解释)4.注意1、2、3的区别5.Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning. As weknow, the relationship between the word-form and meaning is conventional and arbitrary, and most words can be said to be non-motivated. That is, the connection of the sign and meaning does not have a logical explanation. Nevertheless, English does not have words whose meanings can be explained to a certain extent. (名词解释或简答)6.Four motivations:（简答）1)Onomatopoeic motivation (拟声理据)2)Morphological motivation (形态理据)3)Semantic motivation (语义理据)4)Etymological motivation (词源理据)7.types of meaning 要会画表8.grammatical meanings refers to that part of the meaning of the word which indicatesgrammatical concept or relationships such as part of speech of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs), singular and plural meaning of nouns, tense meaning of verbs and their inflectional forms. (名词解释)9.Lexical meaning and grammatical meaning make up the word-meaning. It is known thatgrammatical meaning surfaces only in use. But lexical meaning is constant in all the content words within or without context as it is related to the notion that the word conveys. Lexical meaning itself has two components: conceptual meaning and associative meaning.10.Conceptual meaning (also known as denotative meaning ) is the meaning given in thedictionary and forms the core of word-meaning. (名词解释)11.概念意义的特点：constant and relatively stable12.Associative meaning is the secondary meaning supplemented to the conceptual meaning. (名词解释)13.four types of associative meaning: connotative, stylistic, affective and collective.（填空，选择或简答）14.connotative meaning refers to the overtones or associations suggested by the conceptualmeaning. (名词解释)15.stylistic meaning: Apart from their conceptual meanings, many words have stylistic features,which make them appropriate for different contexts. (名词解释)16.stylistic meaning normally classify into formal, neural and informal.17.examples:domicile (very formal, official) residence(formal)abode(poetic)home(general)diminutive (very formal) tiny (colloquial)wee(colloquial, dialectal)记住这些例子，要知道这些是说的词的”stylistic meaning”18.affective meaning: Affective meaning indicated the speaker’s attitude towards the person orthing in question. (名词解释)19.Words that have emotive values may fall into two categories: appreciative or pejorative.20.collocative meaning: this meaning consists of the associations a word acquires in itscollocation.21.课本第92页课后题选择，填空，判断Chapter 6 Sense Relations and Semantic Field1.论述题(按课堂上讲答)Please illustrate two approaches to polysemy with examples.The problem of interrelation of the various meanings of the same word can be dealt with from two different angles: diachronic approach and synchronic approach.2.The development of word-meaning from monosemy to polysemy follows two courses,traditionally known as radiation and concatenation.3.Homonyms are generally defined as words different in meaning but either identical both insound and spelling or identical only in sound or spelling. (名词解释)4.Types of Homonyms (简答)1）Perfect homonyms2）Homographs3）Homophones5.Perfect homonyms are identical both in sound and spelling, but different in meaning. （名词解释）6.Homographs are words identical only in spelling but different in sound and meaning. （名词解释）7.Homophones are words identical only in sound but different in spelling and meaning. （名词解释）8.Homophones constitute the largest number and the most common. (填空或选择)9.Origins of Homonyms (简答)1）Change in sound and spelling2）Borrowing3）Shortening10.Differentiation of Homonyms from Polysemants (难点，这个课本上整段都要仔细看，不一定会出什么形式的题)Perfect homonyms and polysemants are fully identical with regard to spelling and pronunciation. This creates the problem of differentiation. 1) The fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants lies in the fact that the former refers to different words which happen to share the same form and the latter is the one and same word which has several distinguishable meanings. 2) One important criterion is to see their etymology. 3) The second principle consideration is semantic relatedness. 4) In dictionaries, a polysemant have meanings all listed under one headword whereas homonyms are listed as separate entries. 11.Synonyms: one of two or more words in the English language which have the same or verynearly the same essential meaning. In other words, synonyms share a likeness in denotation as well as I part of speech. (名词解释)12.Synonyms can be classified into two major groups: absolute synonyms and relativesynonyms.13.Absolute synonyms: Absolute synonyms also known as complete synonyms are words shichare identical in meaning in all its aspects, i.e. both in grammatical meaning and lexical meaning, including conceptual and associative meaning.14.Discrimination of synonyms:（论述或简答，注意如果出简答题，则不用举例子，直接答每一段的前一句话就行，但如果是论述，以下都答）The differences between synonyms boil down to three areas: denotation, connotation, and application.1)Difference in denotation. Synonyms may differ in the range and intensity ofmeaning. For example,timid and timorous are synonymous, but the former isapplied to both the state of mind in which a person may happen to be at the moment,and to the habitual disposition, and the latter only to the disposition. Therefore,timid has a wider range of meaning than timorous.2)Difference in connotation. By connotation we mean the stylistic and emotivecoloring of words. For example, among the group of policeman, constable, bobbyand cop. Policeman and constable are stylistically neutral, yet the former is usedboth in British English and American English while the latter is only British. B obbyis colloquial, used only in British English and cop is slangy.3)Difference in application. Many words are synonymous in meaning but different inusage in simple terms. They form different collocations and fit into differentsentence patterns. For example, answer and let are synonyms, but we allow sb to dosth and let sb do sth.15.Antonymy （同上题，简答或论述,另外这里面的例子要记住，选择填空或判断中出现要知道属于哪一类反义词）Antonymy is concerned with semantic opposition. Antonyms can be defined as words which are opposite in meaning. There are a variety of ‘oppositeness’. They can be classified into three major groups.1)Contradictory terms. These antonyms truly represent oppositeness of meaning. Theyare so opposed to each other that they are mutually exclusive and admit nopossibility between them. The assertion of one is the denial of the other. In otherwords, if one of the pair is true, then the other cannot be. For example, an animal iseither dead or alive, and there exists no such a case where the animal is both deadand alive. The same is applicable to present/absent, male/female, boy/girl, true/false,same/different and so on.2)Contrary terms. Antonyms of this type are best viewed in terms of a scale runningbetween two poles or extremes. Antonyms such as rich/poor, old/young, big/smallrepresent two points at both ends of the pole. The two opposites are gradable andone exists in comparison with the other. (other examples: old/young, open/close,rich/poor, hot/cold, beautiful /ugly这几个答大题是不用写，小题时认识就行)3)Relative terms. This third type consist of relational opposites such as parent/child,husband/wife, predecessor/successor, employer/employee, sell/buy, give/recive. 16.Hyponymy 这部分题量不多，记住其中的例子，可能会出选择、填空或判断，比如flower是rose 的什么词？答案：superordiante17.Semantic field这一部分也是出小题，比如给出一堆蔬菜名称，问这是什么语义场，答案a field of vegetable. 或者其他的语义场，fruit, color, relatives and so on.仔细看一下课本上的例子18.课本123页课后题，选择，填空，判断Chapter 7 Changes in Word Meaning1.Word-meaning changes by modes of extension, narrowing, degradation, elevation, andtransfer. Of these, extension and narrowing by far the most common.2.Extension is a process by which a word which originally had a specialized meaning has nowbecome generalized. （名词解释）3.Narrowing is a process by which a word of wide meaning acquires a narrower or specializedsense. (名词解释)4.examples: meat, wife, girl （例子要求同前）5.Elevation refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to position ofimportance. (名词解释)6.Degradation or pejoration of meaning is the opposition of semantic elevation. It is processwhereby of good origins fall into ill reputation or non-affective words come to be used in derogatory sense.(名词解释)7.examples: silly, knave, criticize8.Transfer: words which were used to designate one thing but later changed to mean somethingelse have experienced the process of semantic transfer.(名词解释)9.causes of changes (简答)1）Extra-linguistic factorsa.historical reasonb.class reasonc.psychological reason2) Linguistic factorsa. shortening of phrasesb. borrowingc. analogyChapter 8 Meaning and Context1.linguistic context : Context is used in different sense. In a narrow sense, it refers to the words,clauses, sentences in which a word appears. This is known as linguistic context, which may cover a paragraph, a whole chapter and even the entire book. (名词解释)2.extra-linguistic context: Context is used in different sense in a broad sense, it includes thephysical situation as well. This is called extra-linguistic or non-linguistic context, which embraces the people, time, place, and even the whole cultural background. (名词解释)3.Linguistic context can be subdivided into lexical context and grammatical context.4.Lexical context refers to the words that occur together with the word in question. Themeaning of the word is often affected and defined by the neighboring words.(名词解释)5.Grammatical context: In some case, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the structurein which it occurs. This is what we call grammatical context. (名词解释)6.The role of context: (简答)1)elimination of ambiguity2)indication of referents3)provision of clues for inferring word meaning7.Ambiguity often arises due to polysemy, homonymy and grammatical structure.8.课后习题Chapter 9 English Idioms1. Characteristics of idioms(简答)1)semantic unity2)structural stability2. Please explain the structural stability of idioms(简答)1) The constituents of idioms cannot be replaced.2) The word order cannot be inverted or changed.3) The constituents of an idiom cannot be deleted or added to, not even an article.4) Many idioms are grammatically unanalysable.3. According to grammatical functions we classify idioms into five groups.4. Idioms can be classified into 5 groups: (简答)1) Idioms nominal in nature2) Idioms adjectival in nature3) Idioms verbal in nature4) Idioms adverbial in nature5) Sentence idioms5. Idioms nominal in nature: Idioms of this class have a noun as the key word in each and function as a noun in sentences. （名词解释）6. Idioms verbal in nature can be divided into phrasal verbs and verb phrases.7. Phrasal verbs are idioms which are composed of a verb plus a prep and/or a particle. (名词解释)8. As far as sentence types are concerned, sentence idioms embrace declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamative sentences. In terms of complexity they can be further divided into simple, compound and complex sentences.9. Idioms are generally felt to be informal.10. Apart from the stylistic features, idioms manifest apparent rhetorical colouring in such respects as of phonetic manipulation, lexical manipulation and figures of speech. （填空或简答）11. Phonetic manipulation: (1) Alliteration (2) Rhyme12. 应用举例：eat like a horse -----simileBlack sheep, a dark horse------metaphor13. Metonymy: This refers to idioms in which the name of one thing is used for that of another associated with it. (名词解释)14. 课本179页练习，选择，填空，判断，简答。
词汇学-第三章
Main points
• Morpheme • Allomorph • Types of morphemes • 1) Free morpheme • 2) Bound morpheme
Main points
• a. bound root • b. affixes • i. inflectional affixes • ii. derivational affixes • prefixes • suffixes • Root and stem
Morphemes
Undesirability---Undesirability----un+ -desire+ -able+ -ity Improvement---Improvement----im+ -prove+ -ment
Definition of the morpheme
• MORPHEME is the smallest unit in
English Lexicology
Chapter 3 Word formation I
Abstract
• This chapter aims to analyze the
morphological structures of words and gain a working knowledge of the different word forming elements. It also expounds the basic conceptions of morpheme, allomorph, classify morphemes and differentiate root and stem.
Types of morphemes
英语本科-英语词汇(考试重点)
英语本科英语词汇学Chapter1—Basic concepts of words and vocabularyWord(词的定义)：A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.(1)a minimal free form of a language(2)a sound unity(3)a unit of meaning(4)a form that can function alone in sentenceSound and meaning(声音与意义)：almost arbitrary“no logical relationship between the sound which stands for a thing or an idea and the actual thing and idea itself”.Sound and form(读音和形式)：不统一的四个原因（1）t he English alphabet was adopted from the Romans, which does not have a separate letter to represent each other;（2）T he pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling over the years;（3）S ome of the difference were creates by the early scribes;（4）T he borrowing is an important channel of enriching the English vocabulary; Vocabulary(词汇)：all the words in a language make up its vocabularyClassification of English Words:By use frequency: basic word stocking & nonbasic vocabularyBy notion: content words& functional wordsBy origin: native words& borrowed wordsThe basic word stock(基本词汇)：is the foundation of the vocabulary accumulated over centuries and forms the common core of the language. Though it constitute a small percentage of the EV, it is the most important part of vocabulary.The Fundamental Features of the Basic Word Stock(基本词汇的特征)：1）All- National character(全民通用性most important)2)Stability(相对稳定性) 3)Productivity(多产性)4)Polysemy(多义性) 5)Collocability（可搭配性）没有上述特征的words:(1)Terminology(术语)(2)Jargon（行话）(3)slang(语)(4)Argot(暗语)(5) Dialectal words(方言)(6)Archaisms(古语)(7)Neologisms(新词语)：Neologisms means newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken on new meaning.(email)Content words/notional words实词(cloud, run walk, never, five, frequently) and functional words/empty words虚词(on, of and, be, but)Native Words and Borrowed Words（外来词语）：Native words（本族词语）：known as Anglo-Saxon words(50,000-60,000), are words brought to Britain in the 5th century by the Germanic tribes. (mainstream of the basicword-stocks). Two other features:(1)neutral in style;（2）frequent in use;Borrowed words/Loan words(外来词语)：Words taken over from foreign languages (80% of modern EV) .4 Types of loan words:1)denizens(同化词)：（shirt form skyrta(ON)）2)aliens(非同化词、外来词)：are borrowed words which have retained their originalpronunciation and spelling(kowtow(CH)磕头)3)translation loans(译借词)：按其他语言方式组成英语long time no see(From China)4)Semantic loans(借义词)：they are not borrow with reference to the form, but theirmeaning are borrowed.Chapter 2 the development of the English VocabularyThe Indo-European Language Family(印欧语系)The Threes Stage of Development of the English Vocabulary:1.Old English (450-1100)(vocabulary50,000 to 60,000): was I high inflected language.2.Middle English (1150-1500): remains much fewer inflections.3.Modern English (1500-up to now): in fact more than 25% of modern E words comealmost directly from classical language. In Modern E, word endings were mostly lost with just a few exceptions. English has evolved from a synthetic language (Old English ) to the present analytic language.Modes of Vocabulary Development(词汇的发展模式)1)creation创造新词：the formation of new words by using the existing materials, namelytoots, affixes and other elements(最重要的方式)。
词汇学考试精简笔记-Charter1-4
词汇学考试精简笔记-Charter1-4Introduction0.1 The Nature and Domain of English LexicologyThe definition of Lexicology: (P1)Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and meanings of words (WNWD), the morphological structures of English words and word equivalents, their semantic structures, relations, historical development, formation and usages. 0.2 The Relation to Other DisciplinesThe definition of Morphology: (P1)Morphology is the branch of grammar which studies the structure or forms of words, primarily through the use of morpheme construct.The definition of Etymology: (P2)Etymology is traditionally used for the study of the origins and history of the form and meaning of words.The definition of Semantics: (P2)Semantics is the study of meanings of different linguistic levels: lexis, syntax, utterance, discourse, etc.The definition of Stylistics: (P2)Stylistics is the study of style.The definition of Lexicography: (P2)Lexicography shares with lexicology the same problems: the form, meaning, origins and usages of words.The difference of Lexicography and Lexicology: (P2)A lexicographer’s task is to record the language as it is used so as to present the genuine picture of words to the reader, providing authoritative reference, whereas the student of lexicology is to acquire the knowledge and information of lexis so as to increase their lexical awareness and capacity of language use.Chapter 1Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulary1.1 What is a WordIn visual terms, a word can be defined as a meaningful group; according to semanticists, a word is a unit of meaning. (P6) 选择、填空The definition of Word: (P7) 名词解释A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.A word comprises the following points:1. A minimal free form of a language;2. A sound unity;3. A unit of meaning;4. A form that can function alone in a sentence.1.2 Sound and MeaningThe connection of Sound and Meaning两者之间的关系: (P7) 选择、填空The symbolic connection is almost always arbitrary, and there is no logical relationship, the relationship is conventional.Woman, for example, becomes ‘Frau’ in German, ‘Fremme’ in French and ‘Funu’ in Chinese.：体现了sound，meaning的关系1.3 Sound and FormThe reasons caused the difference between Sound and Form: 读⾳和拼写不⼀致的原因(P8-9 具体例⼦看书本) 简答题1. The internal reason for this is that the English alphabet was adopted from the Romans, which does nothave a separate letter to represent each sound in the language so that some letters must do double duty or work together in combination.2. Another reason is that the pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling over the years, and insome cases the two have drawn far apart.3. A third reason is that some of the differences were created by the early scribes.4. Finally comes the borrowing, which do not conform to the rules of English pronunciation and spelling.*Printing印刷术was established in the late 1500.Sound and form is imperfect: (P10)The written form of English is, therefore, an imperfect representation of the spoken form.1.5 Classification of Words*Three classifications of words: (P11) 选择、填空Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by use frequency, into content words and functional words by notion, and into native words and borrowed words by origin.1.5.1 Basic Word Stock and Nonbasic VocabularyThe difference between BW and NBW: (P11)BW is in use in a high frequency; and NBW is not.The features of Basic Word (P11-12) 简答题●All national character 全民通⽤性●Stability 相对稳定性●Productivity 多产性●Polysemy ⼀词多义●Collocability 搭配性Therefore, ‘all national character’is the most important of all features that may differentiate words of common use from all others.The definition of Productivity: (P12)They can each be used alone, and at the same time can form new words with other roots and affixes.The definition of Polysemy: (P12)Words belonging to the basic word stock often possess more than one meaning because most of them have undergone semantic changes in the course of use and become polysemous.The definition of Collocability: (P12)Many words of the basic word stock enter quite a number of set expressions, idiomatic usages, proverbial sayings and the like.The types of Nonbasic word vocabulary (P13-15) 简答题●Terminology 专业术语●Jargon ⾏话●Slang 俚语●Argot ⿊话●Dialectal words ⽅⾔●Archaisms 古词语●Neologisms 新词语The definition of Terminology: (P13)It consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine.●例⼦有：mathematics, music, education.The definition of Jargon: (P13)It refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves such as in business.●例⼦有：bottom line, bargaining chipsThe definition of Slang: (P14)Slang belongs to the sub-standard language亚标准语⾔, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words.Slang is created by changing or extending the meaning of existing words.The definition of Argot ⿊话: (P15)Argot generally refers to the jargon of criminals.The definition of Dialectal words: (P15)Dialectal words are words used only by speakers of the dialect in question.The definition of Archaisms: (P15)Archaisms are words or forms that were once in common use but are now restricted only to specialized or limited use.The definition of Neologisms: (P15)Neologisms are newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken on new meanings.1.5.2 Content Words and Functional WordsThe difference between Content words and Functional words: (P16) 简答题●Content words denote clear notions and thus are known as notional words.●Functional words do not have notions of their own. Therefore, they are also called empty words. As theirchief function is to express the relation between notions, the relation between words as well as between sentences, they are known as form words.1.5.3 Native Words and Borrowed WordsThe definition of Native Words: (P17)Native words are words brought to Britain in the fifth century by the German tribes (⽇⽿曼部落).The 2 features of Native Words: (P17)1. Neutral in style (French or Latin are literary and in formal style) ⽂体中⽴，即任何场所可⽤2. Frequent in use使⽤频繁The definition of Borrowed Words: (P18)Words taken over from foreign languages are known as borrowed words or loan words or borrowing in simple terms. 三个⿊体字同义Four classes of Borrowed Words: (P19)1. Denizens 同化词Denizens are words borrowed early in the past and now well assimilated into the English language.2. Aliens ⾮同化词Aliens are borrowed words which have retained their original pronunciation and spelling.3. Translation-loans 译借词、外来词Translation-loans are words and expressions formed from the existing material in the English language but modeled on the patterns taken from another language.4. Semantic-loans借义词Words of this category are not borrowed with reference to the form.Chapter 2The Development of the English vocabulary2.1 The Indo-European Language FamilyThe Indo-European Language has approximately 3000languages and group into roughly 300language families on the basis of Basic Word and Grammar. It is made up of most of language of Europe, the Near East, and India.印欧三⼤语系(P23) Germanic family = Scandinavian languages斯堪的纳维亚语的;北北欧⽇⽿曼语系(P24)The Germanic family consists of the four Northern European languages: Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish, which are generally known as Scandinavian languages.In western set, Greek is the modern language derived from Hellenic(希腊语的). (P24)2.2.1 Old English (450 – 1150) (P25)The Germanic tribes are the earliest.The introduction of Christianity had a great impact on the English vocabulary. It brought many new ideas and customs and also many religious terms such as abbot, candle, alter, amen, apostle.The common practice was to create new words by combining two native words, e.g. handbook. (P26)Old English is a highly inflected language.Skirt, skill, window, leg, grasp, birth, they, their, them, egg, these words are from Scandinavian origin.2.2.2 Middle English (1150 – 1500) (P26)Norman Conquest started a continual flow of French words into English. 诺曼⼤帝带来了⼤量的法语词。
英语词汇学试题汇编
英语词汇学试题汇编Chapter 1 Basic Concept of Words and Vocabulary1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?A. The English language is noted for its modest borrowings.B. Loan words only refer to those borrowings in form.C. Loan words are all unrecognizable as being foreign in origin.D. Loan words can be grouped according to manner of borrowing.2. The term "vocabulary "is used in different ways because of all the following reasons EXCEPT that_____.A. it can refer to the common core of a languageB. it can refer to the total number of the words in a languageC. it can represent all the words used in a certain historical periodD. it can stand for words in a given dialect or field3. A word is a symbol that________.A. is used by the same speech communityB. represents something else in the worldC. is both simple and complex in natureD. shows different ideas in different sounds4. Some words in the basic word stock are said to be stable because theyA. are complex words.B. are technical wordC. refer to the commonest things in life.D. denote the most important concepts.5. The basic word stock forms the common____of the language.6. The relationship between sound and meaning is arbitrary or____. 7．Pronouns and numerals enjoy nation-wide use and stability, but have limited_____________概念：jargonChapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary1. __is considered to be a highly-inflected language.A Old English B. Middle EnglishC. Early Modem EnglishD. Late Modem English2. The introduction of______ at the end of the'-6th century had a great impact on the English vocabulary.A. printing, B Christianity C. French words D. all the above3. Though still at work today, ___can hardly compare with what it was inthe past.A. word-formationB. borrowingC. derivationD. conversion4. Early Modern English refers to the language spokenA. from 1066 to 1500B. from 1150 to 1500C. from 1500 to 1700D. from 1600 to 18005. Old English has a vocabulary of about_______words.A. 30,000 to 40,000B. 50,000 to 60,000C. 70,000 to 80,000D. 80,000 to 90,0006. Besides French words, English also absorbed as many as 2,500 words of___in the Middle English period.A. Dutch originB. Danish originC. Latin originD. Greek origin概念：Germanic，Old English简答：Is it true that archaic and obsolete words in English will remainfor ever out of use?Chapter 3 Word Formation I1. A morpheme that can stand alone as a word is thought to be----- .A. affixationalB. derivationalC. freeD. bound2. Affixes added to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationshipsare known as____A. bound rootsB. free morphemesC. inflectional morphemesD. derivational affixes3. ______are bound morphemes because they cannot be used as separatewords.A. RootsB. StemsC. Affixes D, Compounds4. Bound morphemes include two types: bound root and____5. Almost all affixes are_____________ morphemes because few can be usedas independent words.概念：morphs，allomorph，morpheme简答：1。
词汇学复习
Chapter 1 A general survey of English vocabularyLexicology: the study of words/ to study the science of words.a word is the smallest significant unit of a speech.词是语言的最小的有意义结构单位。
the smallest significant unit of a speech is morpheme(词素/语素/形位)Word defined: a fundamental（基本的）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.Sound the naturalists 自然派Meaning the conventionalists 习惯派Three periods of EV1.Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period(449-1100AD)2.Middle English Period (1150-1500)3.Modern English Period (1500-present)Some characteristics of Old English1、The vocabulary is of Germanic characteristic, an exclusively Germanic vocabulary (few borrowings from non-Germanic languages), distinguished by compounding.（复合词）2、An ability to develop new words out of the existing Germanic word-stock instead of borrowing foreign words.3、Old English was an inflected language. It had a complete system of declension with five cases and conjugations.Middle English periodSome features of this period:1)Much borrowed French words;2)The inflectional system of OE decayed rapidly during the ME period and hadvanished almost entirely by the end of this period.3)The appearance of natural gender.Some characteristics of Modern English1、It was divided into two parts: early modern English(1500-1700) and latemodern English(1700--present)2、Expansion3、New words*Newest Development of EV（the rapid growth of present-day English vocabulary and its causes）1、Marked progress of science and technology;cybernetics, bionics, chain reaction, radioactivity, neutron bomb, medium-range ballistic missile, cosmonaut中程导弹, countdown倒数, space shuttle, launching pad, maglev train…2、Socio-Economic, political and cultural changes;Credit card; fringe benefit 额外福利pension 退休金Teach-in 宣讲游说roller-hockey 曲棍球surf-riding 冲浪3. The influence of other cultures and languagesombudsman: 调查官员舞弊情况的官员apartheid: 种族隔离制sputnik: 人造地球卫星autostrada: 高速公路(Italian）autopista: 高速公路（Spanish）Classification of EV1.By origin2.By level of usage:3.By notion4.By time1、By origin:native and loan words 本族语和外来语Fundamental features of basic word stock:1.National character;2.Stability3.Word-forming ability;4.Ability to form collocations.2. By level of usage 使用的程度来分类Common words (standard word) 普通词汇literary words Archaic words 古体语书面语Obsolete wordsPoetical words: traditionally used in poetry. E.g. the deep (the sea), steed (horse), thou, thee (you, sing.), ye (you, plur.), thy (your), thine (yours), yon (over there), aught (anything), naught (nothing).Colloquial words 口语词汇are described as everyday words which have been around for a long time and are often used in informal speeches.Slang words 俚语are ever-changing set of colloquial words generally considered distinct from and socially lower than the standard to describe language that is new and fresh, including argot/cant (secret vocabulary of underworld groups). Technical words 术语include formal specialized language (terminologies) and informal specialized language (jargon) to a trade, job, or group.3. By notionFunction words功能词：determiners, conjunctions, prepositions, auxiliaries（助词），and so forthContent words 实意词: diagnosis 诊断prescription 处方injection 注射space walk ; space opera 太空剧apartheid 种族隔离Chapter 2 Morphological structure of English wordsMorpheme(语素，词素): the morpheme is the smallest meaningful linguistic unit of language, not divisible or analyzable into smaller forms.one morpheme：nationtwo morphemes: nationalthree: morphemes: nation +al +izeAllomorphemes :语素变体，形位变体：Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to their position. Such alternative morphs are allomorphemes. E.g. the morpheme of plurality (-s) has a number if allomorphemes in different sound context, e.g. in cats/s/, in bags/z/, in matches/iz/.有些词素根据其在词中的特殊位置而产生的变体叫词素变体。
英语词汇学chapter3-4 word-formation
• E.g.: Home + work homework; Pick + pocket pickpocket
– conversion (10.5%) – composition or compounding (27%)
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(完整版)英语词汇学试题
英语词汇学试题Introduction and Chapter 1Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabula ry（练习1）I．Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.1.Morphology is the branch of grammar which studies the structure or forms of words, primarily through theuse of _________construct.A. wordB. formC. morphemeD. root2.________ is traditionally used for the study of the origins and history of the form and meaning of words.A. SemanticsB. LinguisticsC. EtymologyD. Stylistics3.Modern English is derived from the language of early ______ tribes.A. GreekB. RomanC. ItalianD. Germanic4. Semantics is the study of meaning of different _________ levels: lexis, syntax, utterance, discourse, etc.A. linguisticB. grammaticalC. arbitraryD. semantic5.Stylistics is the study of style . It is concerned with the user’s choices of linguistic elements in a particular________ for special effectsA. situationB. contextC. timeD. place6.Lexicography shares with lexicology the same problems: the form , meaning, origins and usages of words, but they have a _______ difference.A . spelling B. semantic C. pronunciation D. pragmatic7. Terminology consists of _______ terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas.A. technicalB. artisticC. differentD. academic8. __________refers to the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades, and professions communicate among themselves.A. SlangB. JargonC. Dialectal wordsD. Argot9 ._________ belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words.A. JargonB. ArgotC. Dialectal wordsD. Slang10. Argot generally refers to the jargon of _______.Its use is confined to the sub-cultural groups and outsiders can hardly understand it.A. workersB. criminalsC. any personD. policeman11.________ are words used only by speakers of the dialect in question.A. ArgotB. SlangC. JargonD. Dialectal words12. Archaisms are words or forms that were once in _________use but are now restricted only to specialized or limited use.A. commonB. littleC. slightD. great13. Neologisms are newly-created words or expressions, or words that have taken on ______meanings.A. newB. oldC. badD. good14. Content words denote clear notions and thus are known as_________ words. They include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and numerals.A. functionalB. notionalC. emptyD. formal15. Functional words do not have notions of their own. Therefore, they are also called _______words. Prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliaries and articles belong to this category.A. contentB. notionalC. emptyD. newII. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.16.Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and _____of words.17.English lexicology aims at investigating and studying the ______ structures of English words and word equivalents, their semantics, relations, _____development, formation and ______.18.English lexicology embraces other academic disciplines, such as morphology, ______,etymology, stylistics,________.19.There are generally two approaches to the study of words , namely synchronic and _______.nguage study involves the study of speech sounds, grammar and_______.III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to 1) basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary 2) content words and functional words 3) native words and borrowed words4)characteristics of the basic word stock.A B21 . Stability ( ) A. E-mail22. Collocbility( ) B. aught23. Jargon( ) C. por24. Argot ( ) D. upon25.Notional words( ) E. hypo26. Neologisms ( ) F. at heart27. Aliens ( ) G. man28. Semantic-loans( ) H. dip29. Archaisms ( ) I. fresh30. Empty words ( ) J. emirIV. Study the following words or expressions and identify 1) characteristics of the basic word stock 2) types of nonbasic vocabulary.31. dog cheap ( ) 32 a change of heart ( )33. can-opener ( ) 34.Roger ( )35. bottom line ( ) 36.penicillin ( )37. auld ( ) 38. futurology ( )39.brethren ( ) 40. take ( )V. Define the following terms.41. word 42. Denizens 43. Aliens 44. Translation-loans 45. Semantic-loansVI. Answer the following Questions46.Illustrate the relationship between sound and meaning, sound and form with examples.47. What are the main characteristics of the basic word-stock? Illustrate your points with examples.48. Give the types of nonbasic vocabulary with examples.VII. Analyze and comment on the following.49. Classify the following words and point out the types of words according to notion.earth, cloud, run, walk, on, of, upon, be, frequently , the, five, but, a , never.50. Group the following borrowed words into Denizens, Aliens, Translation-loans, Semantic-loans.Dream, pioneer, kowtow, bazaar, lama, master-piece, port, shirtKey to Exercises:I. 1. A2.C3.D4.A5.B6.D7.A8.B9.D10.B11.D12.A13.A14.B15.CII.16.meanings17.morphological, historical, usages 18. semantics, lexicography19.diachronic20.vocabularyIII.21. G 22. F23. E24. H25. C26. A27. J28.I29.B30.DIV.31. the basic word stock; productivity32. the basic word stock; collocability33.the basic word stock; argot34.nonbasic word stock; slang35. nonbasic word stock; jargon36. nonbasic word stock ;terminology37.nonbasic word stock; dialectal words38. nonbasic word stock ,neologisms39. nonbasic word stock; archaisms40. the basic word stock; polysemyV-----VI. (see the course book)VII. 49. Content words: earth, clould, run, walk, frequently, never, fiveFunctional words: on, of, upon, be, the, but, a.50. Denizens: port, shirt,Aliens: bazaar, kowtowTranslation-loans: lama, masterpieceSemantic-loans:dream, pioneerChapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary and Chapter 3 Word Formation I(练习2)I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.1.It is assumed that the world has approximately 3,000( some put it 5,000)languages, which can be groupedinto the basis of similarities in their basic word stock and grammar.A. 500B. 4000C. 300D. 20002.The prehistoric Indo-European parent language is thought to be a highly ______language.A. inflectedB. derivedC. developedD. analyzed3.After the _________, the Germanic tribes called Angles ,Saxons, and Jutes came in great numbers.A. GreeksB. IndiansC. RomansD. French4.The introduction of ________had a great impact on the English vocabulary.A. HinduismB. ChristianityC. BuddhismD. Islamism5.In the 9th century the land was invaded again by Norwegian and Danish Vikings. With the invaders, many________words came into the English language.A. GreekB. RomanC. CelticD. Scandinavian6.It is estimated that at least ______ words of Scandinavian origin have survived in modern English.A. 500B. 800C. 1000 .D. 9007.The Normans invaded England from France in 1066. The Norman Conquest started a continual flow of______ words into English.A. FrenchB. GreekC. RomanD. Latin8.By the end of the _______century , English gradually came back into the schools, the law courts, andgovernment and regained social status.A. 12thB. 13thC. 14thD.15th9.As a result , Celtic made only a ________contribution to the English vocabulary.A. smallB. bigC. greatD. smaller10. The Balto-Slavic comprises such modern languages as Prussian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovenian and _______.A. GreekB. RomanC. IndianD. Russian11.In the Indo-Iranian we have Persian , Bengali, Hindi, Romany, the last three of which are derived from thedead language.A. SanskritB. LatinC. RomanD. Greek12.Greek is the modern language derived from _______.A. LatinB. HellenicC. Indian D . Germanic13.The five Roamance languages , namely, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian all belong to theItalic through an intermediate language called _______.A. SanskritB. LatinC. CelticD. Anglo-Saxon14.The ________family consists of the four Northern European Languages: Norwegian, Icelandic, Danishand Swedish, which are generally known as Scandinavian languages.A. GermanicB. Indo-EuropeanC. AlbanianD. Hellenic15.By the end of the _______century , virtually all of the people who held political or social power and manyof those in powerful Church positions were of Norman French origin.A. 10thB.11thC.12thD. 13thII. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.16.Now people generally refer to Anglo-Saxon as _______.17.. If we say that Old English was a language of full endings , Middle English was one of ______.18.It can be concluded that English has evoked from a synthetic language (Old English) to the present _____language.19.The surviving languages accordingly fall into eight principal groups , which can be grouped into anEastern set: Balto-Slavic , Indo-Iranian ,Armenian and Albanian; a Western set :Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, _______.20.It is necessary to subdivide Modern English into Early (1500-1700)and _____ Modern English.III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to 1) origin of the words2)history off English development 3) language family.A B21. Celtic ( ) A.politics22. religious ( ) B.moon23.Scandinavian ( ) C. Persian24. French ( ) D.London25. Old English ( ) E. abbot26.Dutch ( ) F. skirt27.Middle English ( ) G. sunu28. Modern English ( ) H. lernen29. Germanic family ( ) I. freight30.Sanskrit ( ) J. NorwegianIV.Study the following words or expressions and identify types of morphemes underlined.31. earth ( ) 32.contradict ( )33. predictor ( ) 34. radios ( )35. prewar ( ) 36. happiest ( )37. antecedent ( ) 38. northward ( )38. sun ( ) 40. diction ( )V. Define the following terms.41. free morphemes 42. bound morphemes 43. root 44. stem 45.affixesVI. Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.46. Describe the characteristics of Old English .47. Describe the characteristics of Middle English.48. Describe the characteristics of Modern English.VII. Answer the following questions with examples.49. What are the three main sources of new words ?50. How does the modern English vocabulary develop ?Key to exercises:I. 1.C 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.D 6.D 7.A 8.B 9.A 10.D 11.A 12.B 13.B 14.A 15.BII.16.Old English 17. Leveled endings 18. analytic 19. Germanic te(1700-up to the present )III.21. D 22. E 23. F 24. A 25. G 26. I 27. H 28. B 29. J 30. CIV.31. free morpheme/ free root 32. bound root 33. suffix 34. inflectional affix35. prefix 36. Inflectional affix 37. prefix 38. suffix 39. free morpheme/free root40.bound rootV.-VI ( See the course book )VII. 49. The three main sources of new words are :(1)The rapid development of modern science and technology ,e.g. astrobiology, green revolution ;(2)Social , economic and political changes; e.g. Watergate, soy milk;(3)The influence of other cultures and language; e.g. felafel, Nehru Jackets.50. Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: (1) creation, e.g. consideration, carefulness; (2) semantic change, e.g. Polysemy, homonymy ; (3) borrowing ;e.g. tofu, gongful.Chapter 3 The Development of the English V ocabulary and Chapter 4 Word Formation II（练习3）I．Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.1.The prefixes in the words of ir resistible, non classical and a political are called _______.A.reversative prefixesB. negative prefixesC. pejorative prefixesD. locative prefixes2.The prefixes contained in the following words are called ______: pseudo-friend, mal practice, mis trust.A. reversative prefixedB. negative prefixesC. pejorative prefixesD. locative prefixes3.The prefixed contained in un wrap, de-compose and dis allow are _________.A. reversative prefixedB. negative prefixesC. pejorative prefixesD. locative prefixes4.The prefixes in words extra-strong, overweight and arch bishop are _____ .A . negative prefixes B. prefixes of degree or size C. pejorative prefixes D. locative prefixes5.The prefixes in words bi lingual ,uni form and hemis phere are ________.A. number prefixesB. prefixes of degree or sizeC. pejorative prefixesD. locative prefixes6.________ are contained in words trans-world, intra-party and fore head.A.Prefixes of orientation and attitudeB. Prefixes of time and orderC. Locative prefixesD. Prefixes of degree or size7. Rugby ,afghan and champagne are words coming from ________.s of booksB. names of placesC. names of peopleD. tradenames8. Omega,Xerox and orlon are words from _________.s of booksB. names of placesC. names of peopleD. tradenames9.Ex-student, fore tell and post-election contain________.A.negative prefixesB. prefixes of degree or sizeC. prefixes of time and orderD. locative prefixes10.Mackintosh, bloomers and cherub are from _______A. names of booksB. names of placesC. names of peopleD. tradenames11.The prefixes in words new-Nazi, autobiography and pan-European are ________.A.negative prefixesB. prefixes of degree or sizeC. prefixes of time and orderD. miscellaneous prefixes12.The prefixes in words anti-government , pro student and contra flow are _____-.A.prefixes of degree or sizeB. prefixes of orientation and attitudeC. prefixes of time and orderD. miscellaneous prefixes13.Utopia ,odyssey and Babbit are words from ________.s of booksB. names of placesC. names of peopleD. tradenames14.The suffixes in words clockwise, homewards are ______.A. noun suffixesB. verb suffixesC. adverb suffixesD. adjective suffixes15.The suffixes in words height en, symbol ize are ________.A. noun suffixesB. verb suffixesC. adverb suffixesD. adjective suffixesII. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.16. Affixation is generally defined as the formation of words by adding word-forming or derivational affixes to stem. This process is also known as_____.pounding , also called ________, is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems . Words formed in this way are called _________.18. __________ is the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class.19. _________ is the formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word . Words formed in this way are called blends or _____words.20 A common way of making a word is to shorten a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains instead. This is called _______.III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to types of suffixation.A B21. Concrete denominal noun suffixes( ) A. priceless22. Abstract denominal noun suffixes ( ) B. downward23. Deverbal noun suffixes(denoting people.)() C. engineer24. Deverbal nouns suffixes( denoting action,etc) （） D. darken25. De-adjective noun suffixes（）Ｅviolinist26. Noun and adjective suffixes ( ) F.happiness27. Denominal adjective suffixes ( ) G. arguable28. Deverbal adjective suffixes ( ) H.dependent29. Adverb suffixes ( ) I. adulthood30. Verb suffixes ( ) J. survivalIV.Study the following words or expressions and identify 1) types of clipping 2) types of acronymy and write the full terms.31.quake ( ) 32. stereo ( ) 33. flu ( ) 34. pub ( ) 35. c/o ( )36. V-day ( ) 37. TB ( ) 38. disco ( ) 39.copter ( ) 40. perm ( )V.Define the following terms .41. acronymy 42. back-formation 43. initialisms 44. prefixation 45. suffixationVI. Answer the following questions with examples.46. What are the characteristics of compounds ?47. What are the main types of blendings ?48. What are the main types of compounds ?VII. Analyze and comment on the following:49. Use the following examples to explain the types of back-formation.(1) donate ----donation emote----emotion(2) loaf—loafer beg------beggar(3) eavesdrop---eavesdropping babysit---babysitter(4) drowse—drowsy laze---lazy50. Read the following sentence and identify the types of conversion of the italicized words.(1) I’m very grateful for your help. (2) The rich must help the poor.(3)His argument contains too many ifs and buts. (4) They are better housed and clothed.(5) The photograph yellowed with age. (6) We downed a few beers.Key to exercises :1. B2. C3. A4. B5. A6.C7.B8.D9.C 10.C 11.D 12.B 13.A 14.C 15.BII. 16. derivation position, compounds 18. Conversion 19. Blending(pormanteau) 20.clippingIII. 21.C 22. I 23. H 24. J 25.F 26.E 27.A 28.G 29.B 30.DIV.31. Front clipping, earthquake32. Back clipping, stereophonic33.Front and back clipping, influenza34.Phrase clipping, public house35. Initialisms, care of36. Acronyms, Victory Day37. Initialisms, tuberculosis38. Back clipping, discotheque39. Front clipping, helicopter40. Phrase clipping, permanent wavesV-VI. (See the course book)VII.49. There are mainly four types of back-formation.(1)From abstract nouns (2) From human nouns (3) From compound nouns and others(4) From adjectives50. (1)Verb to noun (2) Adjective to noun (3) Miscellaneous conversion to noun(4 ) Noun to verb (5) Adjective (6) Miscellaneous conversion to verbChapter 5 Word Meaning (练习4)I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.1. A word is the combination of form and ________.A. spellingB. writingC. meaningD. denoting2._______is the result of human cognition, reflecting the objective world in the human mind.A. ReferenceB. ConceptC. SenseD. Context3.Sense denotes the relationships _______the language.A. outsideB. withC. beyondD. inside4. Most English words can be said to be ________.A. non-motivatedB. motivatedC. connectedD. related5.Trumpet is a(n) _______motivated word.A. morphologicallyB. semanticallyC. onomatopoeicallyD. etymologically6.Hopeless is a ______motivated word.A. morphologicallyB. onomatopoeicallyC. semanticallyD. etymologically7.In the sentence ‘ He is fond of pen ’ , pen is a ______ motivated word.A. morphologicallyB. onomatopoeicallyC. semanticallyD. etymologically8.Walkman is a _______motivated word.A. onomatopoeicallyB. morphologicallyC. semanticallyD. etymologically9.Functional words possess strong _____ whereas content words have both meanings, and lexical meaning inparticular.A. grammatical meaningB. conceptual meaningC. associative meaningD. arbitrary meaning10._______is unstable, varying considerably according to culture, historical period, and the experience of the individual.A.Stylistic meaningB. Connotative meaningC. Collocative meaningD. Affective meaning11.Affective meaning indicates the speaker’s _______towards the person or thing in question.A. feeling .B. likingC. attitudeD. understanding12. _________ are affective words as they are expressions of emotions such as oh, dear me, alas.A. PrepositionsB. InterjectionsC. ExclamationsD. Explanations13. It is noticeable that _______overlaps with stylistic and affective meanings because in a sense both stylistic and affective meanings are revealed by means of collocations.A.conceptual meaningB. grammatical meaningC. lexical meaningD. collocative meaning14.In the same language, the same concept can be expressed in ______.A. only one wordB. two wordsC. more than threeD. different words15.Reference is the relationship between language and the ______.A. speakersB. listenersC. worldD. specific countryII. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.16.In modern English one may find some words whose sounds suggest their ______pounds and derived words are ______ words and the meanings of many are the sum total of themorphemes combined.18._______ refers to the mental associations suggested by the conceptual meaning of a word.19.The meanings of many words often relate directly to their ______. In other words the history of the wordexplains the meaning of the word.20.Lexical meaning itself has two components : conceptual meaning and _________.III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to 1) types of motivation 2) types of meaning.A B21. Onomotopooeic motivation ( ) A. tremble with fear22. Collocative meaning ( ) B. skinny23. Morphological motivation ( ) C. slender24. Connotative meaning ( ) D. hiss25. Semantic motivation ( ) E. laconic26. Stylistic meaning ( ) F. sun (a heavenly body)27. Etymological motivation ( ) G.airmail28. Pejorative meaning ( ) H. home29. Conceptual meaning ( ) I. horse and plug30. Appreciative meaning ( ) J. pen and awordIV.Study the following words or expressions and identify 1)types of motivation 2) types of meaning.31. neigh ( ) 32. the mouth of the river ( )33. reading-lamp ( ) 34. tantalus ( )35. warm home ( ) 36. the cops ( )37. dear me ( ) 38. pigheaded ( )39. handsome boy ( ) 40. diligence ( )V.Define the following terms .41. motivation 42. grammatical meanings 43. conceptual meaning 44. associative meaning 45. affective meaningVI.Answer the following questions . Your answers should be clear and short.46. What is reference ? 47. What is concept ? 48. What is sense ?VII.Analyze and comment on the following.49. Study the following words and explain to which type of motivation they belong.50. Explain the types of associative meaning with examples.Key to exercises:I. 1. C 2.B 3.D 4.A 5.C 6.A 7.C 8.D 9.A 10.B 11.C 12.B 13.D 14.D 15.CII.16. meanings 17.multi-morphemic 18.Semantic motivation 19.origins 20.associative meaningIII.21. D 22.A 23.G 24.H 25.J 26.I 27.E 28.B 29.F 30.CIV.31. Onomatopoeic motivation 32. Semantic motivation33. Morphological motivation 34. Etymological motivation35. Connotative meaning 36.Stylistic meaning37. Affective meaning 38. pejorative39. collocative meaning 40. appreciativeV-VI. See the course book.VIII.49. (1) Roar and buzz belong to onomatopoeic motivation.(2)Miniskirt and hopeless belong to morphological motivation.(3) The leg of a table and the neck of a bottle belong to semantic motivation.(4) Titanic and panic belong to etymological motivation.50. Associative meaning comprises four types:(1)Connotative meaning . It refers to the overtones or associations suggested by the conceptual meaning,traditionally known as connotations. It is not an essential part of the word-meaning, but associations that might occur in the mind of a particular user of the language. For example, mother , denoting a ‘female parent’, is often associated with ‘love’, ‘care’, etc..(2)Stylistic meaning. Apart feom their conceptual meanings, many words have stylistic features, whichmake them appropriate for different contexts. These distinctive features form the stylistic meanings of words . For example, pregnant, expecting, knockingup, in the club, etc., all can have the same conceptual meaning, but differ in their stylistic values.(3)Affective meaning. It indicates the speaker’s attitude towards the person or thing in question. Wordsthat have emotive values may fall into two categories :appreciative or pejorative. For example, famous, determined are words of positive overtones; notorious, pigheaded are of negative connotations implying disapproval, contempt or criticism.(4)Collocative meaning. It consists of the associations a word acquires in its collocation. In other words,it is that part of the word-meaning suggested by the words before or after the word in discussion. For example, we say : pretty girl, pretty garden; we don’t say pretty typewriter. But sometimes there is some overlap between the collocations of the two words.Chapter 6 Sense Relations and Semantic Field (练习5)I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.1.Polysemy is a common feature peculiar to ______.A. English onlyB. Chinese onlyC. all natural languagesD. some natural languages2.From the ______ point of view, polysemy is assumed to be the result of growth and development of thesemantic structure of one and same word .A. linguisticB. diachronicC. synchronicD. traditional3._______ is a semantic process in which the primary meaning stands at the center and the secondarymeanings proceed out of it in every direction like rayes.A Radiation B. Concatenation C. Derivation D. Inflection4. _________ is the semantic process in which the meaning of a word moves gradually away from its first sense by successive shifts until, in many cases, there is not a sign of connection between the sense that is finally developed and that which the term had at the beginning.A. DerivationB. RadiationC. InflectionD. Concatenation5.One important criterion to differentiate homonyms from polysemants is to see their ______.A. spellingB. pronunciationC. etymologyD. usage6. ________refer to one of two or more words in the English language which have the same or very nearly the same essential meaning.A. PolysemantsB. SynonymsC. AntonymsD. Hyponyms7. The sense relation between the two words tulip and flower is _______.A. hyponymyB. synonymyC. polysemyD. antonymy8. _________ are words identical only in spelling but different in sound and meaning, e.g. bow/bau/; bow/beu/.A. HomophonesB. HomographsC. Perfect homonymsD. Antonyms9. The antonyms: male and female are ______.A. contradictory termsB. contrary termsC. relative termsD. connected terms10.The antonyms big and small are ______.A. contradictory termsB. contrary termsC. relative termsD. connected terms11.The antonyms husband and wife are ______.A. contradictory termsB. contrary termsC. relative termsD. connected termsposition and compounding in lexicology are words of _______.A. absolute synonymsB. relative synonymsC. relative antonymsD. contrary antonyms13.As homonyms are identical in sound or spelling, particularly ______, they are often employed in aconversation to create puns for desired effect of humor, sarcasm or ridicule.A. homographsB. homophonesC. absolute homonymsD. antonyms14.From the diachronic point of view, when the word was created, it was endowed with only one meaning .The first meaning is called ______.。
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语⾔学教程胡壮麟（第四版）第3章Chapter 3 From Morpheme to Phrase第⼀部分The formation of word——Morpheme词的构成1. Morpheme 词素的定义Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of language in regard to the relationship between sounding and meaning, a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, such as boy and –s in boys, check and –ing in checking. And the systematic study of morpheme is a branch of linguistics called morphology2. Types of morphemes 词素的种类①Free morpheme and bound morpheme ⾃由词素和黏着词素Free morphemes: Those that may occur alone, that is, those which may make up words by themselves, are free morphemes, such as Dog, nation.Bound morphemes: Those that cannot occur alone. They must appear with at least one different morpheme, are called bound morphemes, for example, the word distempered has three morphemes, namely, dis-, temper, and –ed, of which temper is a free morpheme, dis- and –ed are two bound morphemes.②Root, affix and stem 词根、词缀和词⼲A root is the base form of a word that cannot be further analyzed without destroying its meaning. That is to say, it is that part of the word that remains when all the affixes are removed. For example, in the word internationalism, after the removal of inter-, -al and -ism, what is left is the root nation. Therefore, all words contain a root morpheme.A root may be free or bound. First, free root morphemes are those that can stand by themselves and are the base forms of words, such as black in black, blackbird, blackboard, blacksmith. A language may contain many morphemes of this type. Second, there are relatively a few bound root morphemes in English, such as -ceive in receive, perceive and conceive: -mit in remit, permit, commit and submit: -tain in retain, contain and maintain, among many othersA few English roots may have both free and bound variants. E.g. the word sleep is a free root morpheme, whereas slep- in the past tense form slept cannot exist by itself, and therefore bound.An affix is the collective term for the type of morpheme that can be used only when added to another morpheme. They are classified into three subtypes, namely, prefix, infix, and suffix. Prefix such as para-, mini- in paragraph and miniskirt; Infix such as –ize, -tion in colonize and revolution; Suffix such as –ee- in feet (vs. foot).A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added, so both friend- in friends and friendship- in friendships are stems. The former shows that a stem may be the same as a root, whereas the latter shows that a stem may contain a root and one, or more than one, derivational affix.③Inflectional affix and derivational affix 屈折词缀和派⽣词缀Inflection is the manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition of inflectional affixes, such as number, person, finiteness, aspect, and case, which don’t change the grammatical class of the stems to which they are attached.The distinction between inflectional affixes and derivational affixes is sometimes known as a distinction between inflectional morphemes and derivational morphemes. We can tell the difference between them with the following ways:1)First, inflectional affixes are generally less productive than derivational affixes. They often add a minute or delicate grammatical function to the stem, such as toys, walks, John’s. Therefore, they serve to produce different forms of a single lexical item. However, derivational affixes are very productive in making new words. For example, cite, citation, cital. So derivational affixes often change the lexical meaning.2)Second, inflectional affixes don’t change the word class of the word they attach to, such as flower, flowers, whereas derivational affixes might or might not, such as the relation between small and smallness for the former, and that between brother and brotherhood for the latter.3)Third, that whether one should add inflectional affixes or not depends very often on other factors within the phrase or sentence at stake. For example, the choice of likes in “The boy likes to navigate on the Internet.” is determined by the subject the boy in the sentence. However, derivational affixes are more often based onsimple meaning distinctions. For example, the choice of clever and cleverness depends on whether we want to talk about the property “clever” or we want to talk about “the state of being clever”.4)Fourth, in English, most inflectional affixes are suffixes, which are always word final. E.g. drums, walks, Mary’s. But derivational affixes can be either prefixes, suffixes, or both at the same time. E.g. depart, teacher, international.3. Allomorph and morphological change 变体①allomorph 词素变体An allomorph is the alternate shapes of the same morpheme. Words such as illogical, imbalance, irregular and inactive share a common morpheme in-. In other words, il-, im-, and ir- are exceptionally the variation forms of one morpheme in-. These variation forms are called Allomorphs, i.e. allomorphs of the same morpheme owing to the influence of the sounds to which it attaches.②morphological change 形态变化Morphological change takes the form of inflectional changes in affixes.第⼆部分Word 词1. word 词和词项的定义Word is a typical grammatical unit between Morpheme and Word Group, such as boy, check, write, and fat. Lexical items refer to the cases when a word appears in different forms, such as boy and boys, or check, checks, checked, and checking. So Word is a general, covering term (boy and boys are one word) and Lexical Item a specific term (boy and boys are two lexical items).2. Three characteristics of word 词的三个特性①Stability 稳定性Words, concerning their internal structures, are the most stable of all linguistic units, Generally speaking, it is hard for one to re-arrange the internal structure of a complex word into a different order. For example, the word chairman cannot be re-arranged as * manchair, the latter being an unacceptable word in English.②Relative uninterruptibility 相对连续性Uninterruptibility means that new elements should not be inserted into a word, even when there are several parts in it. For example, nothing should be inserted in between the three parts of the word disappointment: dis + appoint + ment.③ A minimum free form 最⼩的⾃由形式Leonard Bloomfield advocated treating sentence as “the maximum free form” while word as “the minimum free form”. Word is the smallest unit that can be used, by itself, as a complete utterance. For example, Is Jane coming tomorrow? Possibly.3. Classification of words 词的种类①Variable and invariable words 可变词与不变词V ariable words have inflective changes. That is, the same word may have different grammatical forms but part of the word remains relatively constant. E.g. follow – follows – following – followed.Invariable words refer to those such as since, when, seldom, hello. They don’t have inflective endings.②Grammatical words and lexical words 语法词（功能词）和词汇词（实义词）Grammatical words（function words）:Those that mainly work for constructing group, phrase, clause, clause complex, or even text are grammatical words, such as conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns. Lexical words（content words）:Those that mainly work for referring to substance, action and quality, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, are lexical words.③Closed-class words and open-class words 封闭类词和开放类词Closed-class word: A word that belongs to the Closed-class is one whose membership is fixed or limited, such as pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and others.Open-class word: the Open-class is one whose membership is in principle infinite or unlimited. When new ideas, inventionsor discoveries emerge, new members are continually and constantly added to the lexical system of a language.④Word class（part of speech）词类This is close to the notion of parts of speech in traditional grammar.Nine word classes were established: they were noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, article, pronoun, and interjection.Today, a few more word classes have been introduced into grammer.i. Particles助词Particles include at least the infinitive marker “to” , the negative marker “not”, and the subordinate units in phrasal verbs, such as “get by”, “do up”, “look back”.ii. Auxiliaries助动词Auxiliaries used to be regarded as verbs. Because of their unique properties, which one could hardly expect of a verb, linguists today tend to define them as a separate word class.iii. Pro-form代词形式The items in a sentence which substitute for other items or constructions are called Pro-forms. For example, in the following conversation, so replaces that I can come.A: I hope you can come.B: I hope so.iv. Determiners限定词Determiners refer to those words that are used before the noun acting as head of a noun group, and that determine the kind of reference the nominal group has.第三部分Word formation 词汇构成1. Word formation（1）：From Morpheme to Word 从词素到词(1) The inflectional way of formationInflection indicates grammatical relations by adding inflectional affixes, such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and case, which don’t change the grammatical class of the stems to which they are attached. For example, Table/tables.(2) The derivational way of formationDerivation, in its restricted sense, refers to the process of how new words are formed. It can be further divided into two sub-types: the derivational type (derivation) and the compositional type (compound).①Derivation派⽣Derivation shows a relationship between roots and affixes. In contrast to inflections, derivations can make the word class of the original word either changed or unchanged.E.g. Changed: delight+ful=delightful; unchanged: non+smoker= nonsmoker②Compound合成Compounds refer to those words that consist of more than one lexical morpheme, or the way to join two separate words to produce a single form, such as sunrise, cloakroom, railway. It can be divided into two types:(1) Invention 发明法Technological and economic activities are the most important and dynamic in modern human life, many new lexical items come directly from them, such as Coke, nylon.(2) Blending 混成法Blending is a relatively complex form of compounding, in which two words are blended by joining together the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word, or by only joining the initial parts of the two words. For example, smoke+ fog →smog; breakfast + lunch →brunch.(3) Abbreviation / Clipping 缩写法/截断法A new word is created by cutting the initial part or the final part or cutting both the initial and the final parts of the original words. E. g. telephone→phone; fanatic→fan; influenza→flu.(4) Acronym ⾸字母缩略词Acronym is made up from the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a heavily modified headword. E. g. WTO→World Trade Organization(5) Back-formation 逆构词法Back-formation refers to an abnormal type of word-formation where a shorter word is derived by deleting an imagined affix from a longer form already in the language. E. g. editor→edit(6) Analogical creation 类推构词法The principle of analogical creation can account for the co-existence of two forms, regular and irregular, in the combination of some English verbs. E. g. work →wrought →worked.(7) Class shift 词性变换By shifting word class one can change the meaning of a word from a concrete entity or notion to a process or attribution. This process of word formation is also known as zero-derivation, or conversion. E. g. Engineer(v/n)(8) Borrowing 借⽤English in its development has managed to widen its vocabulary by borrowing words from other languages, such as Greek, French, Spanish and other languages have all played an active role in this process. There are four types of borrowing:①Loanwords（全部借词）：a process in which both form and meaning are borrowed with only a slight change.E. g. coup d’ état , tea , 秀，脱⼝秀②Loanblend（混合借词）：a process in which part of the form is native and the rest has been borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed. E. g. Chinatown 吉普车③Loanshift（转移借词）：a process in which the meaning is borrowed, but the form is native. E. g. artificial satellite from the Russian S putnik.④Loan translation（翻译借词）：a special type of borrowing, in which each morpheme or word is translated in the equivalent morpheme or word in another language, also called Calque. E. g. black humor (humour noir), found object (objet trouve).第四部分Word group and phrase 词组和短语Word group is a group of words, it is an expansion of a word.Phrase is a contraction of a clause nominal group, such as Verbal group, Adverbial group, preposition group.。
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Chapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary and Chapter 3 Word Formation I(练习2)I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.1.It is assumed that the world has approximately 3,000( some put it 5,000)languages, which canbe grouped into the basis of similarities in their basic word stock and grammar.A. 500B. 4000C. 300D. 20002.The prehistoric Indo-European parent language is thought to be a highly __A____language.A. inflectedB. derivedC. developedD. analyzed3.After the ____C_____, the Germanic tribes called Angles ,Saxons, and Jutes came in greatnumbers.A. GreeksB. IndiansC. RomansD. French4.The introduction of ____B____had a great impact on the English vocabulary.A. HinduismB. ChristianityC. BuddhismD. Islamism5.In the 9th century the land was invaded again by Norwegian and Danish Vikings. With theinvaders, many _____D___words came into the English language.A. GreekB. RomanC. CelticD. Scandinavian6.It is estimated that at least ___D___ words of Scandinavian origin have survived in modernEnglish.A. 500B. 800C. 1000 .D. 9007.The Normans invaded England from France in 1066. The Norman Conquest started acontinual flow of ___A___ words into English.A. FrenchB. GreekC. RomanD. Latin8.By the end of the ____B___century , English gradually came back into the schools, the lawcourts, and government and regained social status.A. 12thB. 13thC. 14thD.15th9.As a result , Celtic made only a ____A____contribution to the English vocabulary.A. smallB. bigC. greatD. smaller10. The Balto-Slavic comprises such modern languages as Prussian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovenian and ___D____.A. GreekB. RomanC. IndianD. Russian11.In the Indo-Iranian we have Persian , Bengali, Hindi, Romany, the last three of which arederived from the dead language.AA. SanskritB. LatinC. RomanD. Greek12.Greek is the modern language derived from __B____.A. LatinB. HellenicC. Indian D . Germanic13.The five Roamance languages , namely, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian allbelong to the Italic through an intermediate language called _B_____.A. SanskritB. LatinC. CelticD. Anglo-Saxon14.The ____A____family consists of the four Northern European Languages: Norwegian,Icelandic, Danish and Swedish, which are generally known as Scandinavian languages.A. GermanicB. Indo-EuropeanC. AlbanianD. Hellenic15.By the end of the ____B___century , virtually all of the people who held political or socialpower and many of those in powerful Church positions were of Norman French origin.A. 10thB.11thC.12thD. 13thII. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.16.Now people generally refer to Anglo-Saxon as ___old english____.17.. If we say that Old English was a language of full endings , Middle English was one of __leveled endings ___.18.It can be concluded that English has evoked from a synthetic language (Old English) to thepresent _ _ analytic ___ language.19.The surviving languages accordingly fall into eight principal groups , which can be groupedinto an Eastern set: Balto-Slavic , Indo-Iranian ,Armenian and Albanian; a Western set :Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, _____ Germanic __.20.It is necessary to subdivide Modern English into Early (1500-1700)and __ Late(1700-up tothe present )21.___ Modern English.III. Match the words or expressions in Column A with those in Column B according to 1) origin of the words 2)history off English development 3) language family.A B21. Celtic ( D ) A.politics22. religious ( E ) B.moon23.Scandinavian ( F ) C. Persian24. French ( A ) D.London25. Old English ( G ) E. abbot26.Dutch ( I ) F. skirt27.Middle English ( H ) G. sunu28. Modern English ( B ) H. lernen29. Germanic family ( J ) I. freight30.Sanskrit ( C ) J. NorwegianIV.Study the following words or expressions and identify types of morphemes underlined.31. earth ( free root ) 32.contradict ( Boundroot )33. predictor ( suffix ) 34. radios ( inflectionalaffix )35. prewar ( prefix ) 36. happiest ( inflectionlaaffix )37. antecedent ( prefix ) 38. northward (suffix )38. sun ( free root ) 40. diction ( bound root ) V. Define the following terms.41. free morphemes 42. bound morphemes 43. root 44. stem 45.affixesVI. Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.46. Describe the characteristics of Old English .47. Describe the characteristics of Middle English.48. Describe the characteristics of Modern English.VII. Answer the following questions with examples.49. What are the three main sources of new words ?50. How does the modern English vocabulary develop ?Key to exercises:I. 1.C 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.D 6.D 7.A 8.B 9.A 10.D 11.A 12.B 13.B14.A 15.BII.16.Old English 17. Leveled endings 18. analytic 19. Germanicte(1700-up to the present )III.21. D 22. E 23. F 24. A 25. G 26. I 27. H 28. B 29. J 30. CIV.31. free morpheme/ free root 32. bound root 33. suffix 34. inflectional affix35. prefix 36. Inflectional affix 37. prefix 38. suffix 39. free morpheme/free root40.bound rootV.-VI ( See the course book )VII. 49. The three main sources of new words are :(1)The rapid development of modern science and technology ,e.g. astrobiology, greenrevolution ;(2)Social , economic and political changes; e.g. Watergate, soy milk;(3)The influence of other cultures and language; e.g. felafel, Nehru Jackets.50. Modern English vocabulary develops through three channels: (1) creation, e.g. consideration, carefulness; (2) semantic change, e.g. Polysemy, homonymy ; (3) borrowing ;e.g. tofu, gongful.。
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2) De-adjectival: This conversion can be explained in terms of a fixed adjective plus noun phrase from which the noun has been ellipted.
Typical examples are: I’d like two pints of bitter, please. ( type of beer) They ‘re running in the final. ( the final race) As a foot-baller, he is a natural. ( a naturally skilled player)
Daily( daily newspaper) Comic (comic actor) Regular ( regular customer) Roast( roast beef) Young marrieds ( married people)
Annual ( annual book or magazine) Bimonthly ( bimonthly magazine) Biweekly ( biweekly magazine) Weekly ( weekly magazine) Monthly ( monthly magazine) Perennial ( perennial plant)
b)(intransitive verb) to become adj. Dry: to becom empty
Narrow: to become narrow Yellow: to become yellow
Grey: to become grey Blue: to become blue This kind can also be used as transitive verbs and intransitive verbs:
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3.1 Morphemes 词素 3.2 Allomorphs词素的变体 3.3 Types of Morphemes 词素的分类 3.3.1 Free Morphemes 自由词素 3.3.2 Bound Morphemes 粘着词素 3.4 Root and Stem词根和词干
3.4 Root and Stem词根和词干
• A root is the basic form of a word which cannot be futher analysed without total loss of identity. • 词根就是单词的基本形式，不能失去其原本意义 • A stem may consist of a single root morpheme as in iron or of two root morphemes as in a compound like handcuff. • 词干就是包含一个独立的词根，比如一个iron(铁 的），或是带有一个两个词根的复合名词如： handcuff(手铐）
• To be safe, in the discussion of means of word-formation, we will use stem only beacause it can replace root and also refer to any form which is larger than a root. • 安全起见，在谈到单词构成的时候，我们经常只 使用词干，只是因为词干可以代替词根，也因为 词干可以解释任何大于词根的结构。
Bound Morpheme includes two types: (1) bound root(粘附词根) (2)Affix(词缀) 粘着词素包括两种：粘着词根和词缀 Affixes can be put into two groups: 词缀可以被分为两组： 1)Inflectional affixes (屈折词缀):affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are inflectional,thus known as inflectional morphemes. • 2)Derivational affixes(派生词缀): • A)prefix前缀: A prefix comes before words. 单词前面的叫前缀 • B)suffix后缀: An adjective suffix（形容词后缀） that is added to the stem, whatever class is belonged to the result will be an adjective.词干后面的叫后缀，任何单词有这样的词缀都会变成形容 词 • • • • • •
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2. Suffix: -ly Meaning: functional Stem type: added to adjectives Examples: freely, quickly Suffix: -able Meaning: something can be done or is possible Stem type: added to verbs Examples: acceptable, respectable
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One morpheme Two morphemes Three morphemes Four morphemes Practice: Exercise 1 (p40)
desire desire + able desire + able + ity un + desire + able + ity
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1. a) micro + film; b) be + draggle + ed c) announce + ment d) pre + digest + ion e) tele + communicate + ion f) fore + father g) psycho + physics h) mechan + ist
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Lectures on English LexicologyMain Sections for the Lectures:Chapter 1: Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulary1.1What Is a Word?A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.1.2 Sound and MeaningA word is a symbol that stands for something else in the world. This symbolic connection is almost always arbitrary, and there is no logical relationship between the sound which stands for a thing or an idea and the actual thing and idea itself. The relationship between sound and meaning is conventional because people of the same speech community have agreed to refer to a certain thing with a cluster of sounds. In different languages the same concept can be represented by different sounds.1.3 Sound and FormIt is generally agreed that the written form of a natural language is the written record of the oral form. The English alphabet was adopted from the Romans.In spite of the differences, at least eighty percent of the English words fit consistent spelling patterns.1.4 V ocabularyAll the words in a language make up its vocabulary.The general estimate of the present-day English vocabulary is over one million words.1.5 Classification of Words1.5.1 Basic Word Stock and Non-basic V ocabularyBasic words have the following characteristics:1.All national character: they denote the most common things and phenomena ofthe world around us, which are indispensable to all the people who speak the language.2.Stability: as these words denote the commonest things necessary to life, they arelikely to remain unchanged.3.Productivity:as they are mostly root words or monosyllabic words, they caneach be used alone, and at the same time can form new words with other roots and affixes4.Polysemy:words of this kind often possess more than one meaning becausemost of them have undergone semantic changes in the course of use and become polysemous.5.Collocability: most of these words enter quite a number of set expressions,idiomatic usages, and proverbial sayings.“All national character” is the most important of all features that may differentiate words of common use from all others.Non-basic words include the following:1.Terminology（术语）: technical terms used in particular disciplines andacademic areas.2.Jargon（行话）: the specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts,sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves.3.Slang（俚语）4.Argot（黑话）5.Dialectal words（方言词语）6.Archaisms（古语）7.Neologisms（新词）1.5.2 Content Words and Functional WordsContent words denote clear notions and thus are known as notional words（实义词）. They include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and numerals, which denote objects, phenomena, action, quality, state, degree, quantity, etc.Functional words do not have notions of their own. They are also called empty words. The chief function of these words is to express the relation between notions, the relation between words as well as between sentences. They are known as form words. Prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliaries and articles belong to this category.Content words are numerous and the number is ever growing whereas the functional words which make up a small number of vocabulary，remain stable. However, functional words do far more work of expression in English on average than content words.1.5.3 Native Words and Borrowed WordsNative words: words brought to Britain in the 5th century by the Germanic tribes: the Angles, the Saxons, and Jutes, thus known as Anglo-Saxon words. Words of Anglo-Saxon origin are small in number, amounting to roughly 50,000 to 60,000, but they form the mainstream of the basic word stock and stand at the core of the language.Native words have two other features:1.Neutral in style: since native words denote the commonest things in humansociety, they are used by all people, in all places, on all occasions, and at all times.Stylistically, native words are neither formal nor informal whereas the words borrowed from French or Latin are literary and learned, thus appropriate in formal style.2.Frequent in use: Native words are most frequently used in everyday speech andwriting. The percentage of native words in use runs usually as high as 70 to 90 percent.Borrowed word: words taken over from foreign languages are known as borrowed words or loan words or borrowings in simple terms. It is estimated that English borrowings constitute 80 percent of the modern English vocabulary.The loan words can be classified into four classes:1.Denizens（同化词）are words borrowed early in the past and now are wellassimilated into the English language. eg: pork----porc(F) cup---cuppa(L) 2.Aliens（非同化词）are borrowed words which have retained their originalpronunciation and spelling. eg: bazzar (per) intermesso( IT)3.Translation loans（译借词）4.Semantic loans（语义借词）Questions and Tasks on P20: 1—6Chapter 2: The Development of the English Vocabulary The English language is not the language of the early inhabitants of the British Isles.A Historical Overview of the English vocabularyThe first peoples known to inhabit the land were Celts. Their languages were dialects of still another branch of the Indo-European language family—Celtic（克尔特语）.The second major language known in England was the Latin of the Roman Legions. In 55-54 B.C., the Romans invaded the British Isles and were to occupy the land until about 410.When the Roman empire began to crumble, the Germanic tribes came in. they are Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.2.2.1 Old English (450—1150)The Germanic tribes took permanent control of the land, which was to be called England (the land of Angles). Their language, historically known as Anglo-Saxon, dominated and almost totally blotted out the Celtic. People generally refer to Anglo-Saxon as Old English. Old English has a vocabulary of about 50,000 to 60,000 words. It was a highly inflected language just like modern German.2.2.2 Middle English (1150--1500)Old English began to undergo a great change when the Normans invaded England from France in 1066. the Norman Conquest started a continual flow of French words into English. Between 1250 and 1500 about 9,000 words of French origin poured into English. 75 percent of them are still in use today.2.2.3 Modern English (1500—up to now)Modern English began with the establishment of printing in England. In the early period of Modern English, Europe saw a new upsurge of learning ancient Greek and Roman classics. This is known in history as the Renaissance.In the mid-seventeenth century, England experienced the Bourgeois Revolution followed by the Industrial Revolution and rose to be a great economic power.Although borrowing remained an important channel of vocabulary expansion, yet more words are created by means of word-formation.Growth of Present-day English V ocabularyGenerally, there are three main sources of new words: the rapid development of modern science and technology; social, economic and political changes; the influence of other cultures and languages.Modes of V ocabulary DevelopmentModern English vocabulary develops through three channels: creation, semantic change, borrowing.1.Creation refers to the formation of new words by using the existing materials,namely roots, affixes and other elements. In modern times, creation is the most important way of vocabulary expansion.2.Semantic change means an old form which takes on a new meaning to meet thenew need.3.Borrowing has played a vital role in the development of vocabulary, particularlyin earlier times.Questions and Tasks on P33: 3, 4, 10Chapter 3: Word Formation IThough borrowing has been playing an active role in the expansion of vocabulary, vocabulary is largely enriched on an internal basis.boys boy+schecking check+ingchairman chair+manMorphemes（词素）the smallest meaningful unit of language Morpheme is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content, a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical, e.g. boys---boy+-s indicates pluralitychecking---check+-ingdisappointment词是由一个或一个以上的词素构成的。
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– modify the lexical meaning of the base – including: negative, reversative, pejorative, etc.
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• The rules of word-formation define the scope and methods whereby speakers of a language may create new words. However, any rule of word-formation is of limited productivity in the sense that not all the words which result from the application of the rule are acceptable.
• e.g.: water the flower,
– Other terms for conversion are “functional shift” and “derivation by zero suffix.”
– Conversion as a result of the almost entire loss of inflection (屈折变化) in modern English.
– The meaning of a compound is not always the sum of the meanings of its parts.
• E.g.: Home + work homework; Pick + pocket pickpocket
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(h) Others (about 3%): pizzazz(时髦派头), gazump(索高价).
Words formed by these minor processes account for 26.5% of the new vocabulary. The remaining 18.5% is from borrowing, e.g. discotheque,
1) “negative” prefixes (un-, non-, in-, dis-, a-); 2) “reversative or privative”(“非” “缺”)
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They are neutral in style: Begin (E)--- commence (French) Brotherly (E)--- fraternal (F) answer (E) --- replay (F) fall (E) --- autumn (F)
II Borrowed words in the English vocabulary
Native words denote the commonest things in human society, they are used by all people, in all places on all occasions, and at all times. They are not stylistically specific
This collocability is also evident in terms of verbs
Delexicalized verbs can be understood as part of the shift that they have less of a clear and independent meaning gradually while having more of grammatical function. It is worth noting that It has obtained a greater capability in collocation, substitution and conjunction with other words. Therefore, delexicalization is believed to contribute to the native-like speech that the language learners make. In a word, delexicalized verbs is believed to entail such a delexicalized beauty that they are preferred by speakers in use, thanks to which they enrich everyday words simultaneously.
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Chapter 3 Word formation( the three major process of word-formation)1.Explain :Word-formation rules:Word-formation rules define the scope and methods whereby speakers of a language may create new words.Rules themselves are not fixed but undergo changes.2.Root,stem and base. （词根、词干和词基）Analyze the word denationalized into root,base and stem1)Root: A root is the basic unchangeable part of a word,and it conveys the main lexical meaningof the word.Free root: A root which can stand itself and can be used seperately to form a new word. A word consisting of one free root or one morhpeme is a simple word.e.g., man,talk,red,etc. A free root is a free morpheme.Bound root: A root which cannot stand itself and cannot be used seperately,but as an attachment to be added to a word to fo rm a new word. such as “tain,ceive”.Bound roots must be usedtogether with other elements to form a word, e.g. “con+tain” = “contain”2)Stem: A stem refers to the surplus part after the cutting of inflectional morpheme (曲折詞素)ina word with inflectional morphemes.e.g. 'worker' in 'workers' is a stem.3)Base(词基）:A base is any form to which affixes of any kind can be added;it may also be definedas ''a form to which a rule of word-formation is applied.''This means that any root or stem can be termed a base.Such as,desirable is a base in undesirable.4) The differences between root,stem,base:A root is the basic unchangeable part of a word,no further analysis.Such as nation is a root ininternational.A stem is the surplus part after the cutting of inflectional morpheme in a word with inflectionalmorphemes,can be further analyszed,it sometimes could be a root. e.g. desire is a stem in desired.A base is a form to which a rule of word-formation is applied,it could be a root or a stem.Such asinternation is a base in international.pounding Composition or Compounding (27%) （复合法）Definition: Compounding consists of combining two or more words into one which now expressesa single idea and functions as a separate lexical pounding is the most productiveword-formation process in contemporary English.4.what are the relative criteria of a commound?Orthographic criterion(书写标准) :Compounds are written in three ways,e.g. solid:airmail;hyphenated:air-conditioning; open: air force, air raid.Phonological criterion(语音标准) :Semantic criterion(语义标准)5.Affixation or Derivation (17.5%) （派生法或词缀法）@It is a process of forming new words by the addition of a word element,such as a prefix,suffix,or combining form,to an already existing word. e.g. :tele- --telephone, telescope6.What is the difference between prefixation and suffixation?Prefixation: the formation of new words by adding prefixes to stems. It does not change theword-class of the stem but change its meaning.Suffixation --Suffixation is the formation of new words by adding suffixes to stems. Change the grammatical function of stems (the word class). Suffixes can be grouped on a grammatical basis.7.How are the marjor living prefixes classified?1)''nagative ''否定prefixes:un-,non,in-,dis,a- etc.2)''reversative相反or privative否定的前缀''prefixes:un-,de-dis etc.3)''pejorative变坏的, 轻蔑的''prefixes: mis-, mal-, pseudo- etc.4)''degree or size ''prefixes:arch-, super-,out-,sub-,over-,under-,hyper-,ultra-,mini- etc.5)''attitude态度''prefixes:co-,counter-,anti-,pro- etc.6)''locative位置格''prefixes:super-,sub-,inter-,trans- etc.7)''time and order ''prefixes:fore-,pre-,post-,ex-,re- etc.8)''number ''prefixes:uni-/mono-,bi-/di-,tri-,multi-/poly- etc.8.How can you form deverbal nouns,denominal nouns,deadjective verbs,and denominal adjectivesby suffixation?Deverbal nouns:來自動詞的名詞a. Denoting people -- -ant （assistant）, -ee (trainee), -ent (respondent), -er(-or)b. Denoting action, result, process, state, ect. -- -age (linkage), -al (dismissal), -ance (attendance),-ation(-ition, -tion, -sion, -ion), -ence (existence), -ing (savings), -mentDenominal nouns:來自名詞的名詞a.Concrete -- -eer (engineer), -er (teenager), -ess (hostess), -ette (cigarette), -let (booklet)b. Abstract -- -age (wastage), -dom (处于…状态)(officialdom), -ery (slavery), -ery (-ry), -hood(childhood), -ing (farming), - ism（…主义）(terrorism), -ship（状态）(sportsmanship) Deadjective verbs:來自形容詞的動詞-ity (popularity), -ness (happiness)Denominal adjectives:來自名字的形容詞ese (Chinese), -an (Australian), -ist (主义) (socialist)Denominal suffixes -- -ed (wooded), -ful (successful), -ish (foolish), -less (priceless), -like(lady-like), -ly (friendly), -y (smoky)-al(-ial, -ical) (cultural, residential), -esque (picturesque), -ic (economic), -ous(-eous, -ious)(coutageous)-ic and –ical can be affixed to the stem in some cases, but differ in meaning.Historic (important in history) historical (of history)Classic (great, memorable) classical (of Latin or Greek)Comic (of comedy) comical (funny)Economic (in the economy) economical (money-saving)Electric (powered by electricity) electrical (of electricity)Deverbal suffixes -- -able (-ible) (washable), -ive(-ative, -sive) (active, decisive)Adverb suffixes -- -ly (calmly), -ward(s) (homewards), -wise (clockwise)Verb suffixes -- -ate(originate), -en (darken), -(i)fy (beautify), -ize (ise) (modernize)9.Conversion or Functional shift (10.5%) （转成法或功能转换法）It's a word-formation process whereby a word of a certain word-class is shifted into a word of another word-class without the additon of an affix.radio n. -- to radio v.cry v. -- cry n.10.what is the difference between conversion and suffixation?Suffixation@: It's the formation of a new word by adding a suffix or a combining form to the base,and usually changing the word-class of the base.e.g. boy n. + -ish -- boyish adj. boy n.+ hood -- boyhood n.11.In a convrsion pair, how can you determine which of the two is the base and which the derivedword?Wirter---a deverbal noun with er suffixSpy –a deverbal noun without suffixDerivation by zero suffix12.Illustrate the axiom,the actural grammatical classification of any word is depent upon its usei.e. the second round was exciting(n)any round plate will do (adj)some drivers round coners too rapidly(v.)the sound goes round and round13.why is the conversion from noun to verb the most productive process of conversion?1.first in contemporary English,there is tendencey of “a preponderance (优势)of nouns over verbs.2.there are only a few verb-forming affixes in english . they are be-,en-,ify,ize and en is nowscarcely productive, while ize is the ohly highly productively one. More over, new verbs formed by other word-formation processes are also very few , except by back-fromation,which is,however , not a very productive word-formation process iteself. We might therefore more andmore new verbs to be coined by means of conversion14.what are the marjor semantic types(语义)under noun to verb conversion1.to put in/on N: the nouns are usually locative nouns denoting a place ,a contianer or a speciallocation. the workers canned apples=the workers put apples in cans2.to give N, to provide NThey sheltered the orphans认为不太重要, 不想往下写15.why is “the poor” an example of partial conversionsome adjectives are used as nouns when preceded by the definite article such as the poor,thewounded:yet these conveted nouns take only some of the features of noun, i.e. they do not take plural(复数) and genitive（所有格）inflections, nor can they be preceded by determiners like a , this ,my .such adjective—noun conversion is particalChapter 3Morphological structure of English wordsObjectives: Discuss morphemes, their classification and identification;Explain the relationship between morphemes and word-formationTeaching focus:Definition of morphemesDefinition of allomorphsTypes of Types of morphemesfree morphemebound morphemeDefinitions of root, stem and baseOn the morphemic level,Word, according to the number and type of morpheme they, can be classified into the below itema.the simple words: those consisting of a single morpheme,such as man, work, kindb.derived words: those which are the result of a derivational process, such words usually consist of afree morpheme and one(or more than one)bound morpheme, such as fruitless,fruitful,unfruitful, fruitfulness,pound wors: those which are composed of two or more free morpheme, e.g: deep structure,specesuit,forget-me-not,maid-of-all-work,and jack of all trades.1. MorphemeWhat is a morphemeIt is the minimal meaningful unit of English language, possesses both sound and meaning. Or it is the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words.语素是最小的有意义的单位.它是语言中最小的构词单位2. Morph and allomorphThe definition of morphs:The phonetic or orthographic strings or segments which realize morphemes are termed 'morphs'.语素的语音或拼写法的体现叫形素.Morphs are actual spoken, minimal carriers of meaning.形素是口语中最小的意义载体.What is an allomorphAn allomorph is one of the variants of the same morpheme.语素/形位变体是同一个语素的不同形式.For exampleWhen the plural marker {s} is added to cat, dog, and horse, it is pronounced differently as /-s, -z, -iz/ and thus has three phonological forms; the three forms are just the variants of the samemorpheme {s}, i.e. the allomorphs of morpheme {s}.3. Classifications of morphemesFree vs. bound morphemes in terms of their capacity of occurring aloneDerivational vs. inflectional morphemesapplying to affixes onlyContent / lexical vs. grammatical morpheme on a semantic and syntactic basisFree vs. bound morphemes自由语素与粘着语素Morphemes which are independent of other morphemes are free. Free morphemes have complete meanings in themselves and can be used as free grammatical units in sentences.自由语素是能独立运用的语素,它有完整的意义,在句中充当一个自由的语法单位.E.g., man, wind, open, tourMorphemes which cannot occur as separate words are bound. They are bound to other morphemes to form words or to perform a particular grammatical function.粘着语素不能独立成词,只能依附于其他语素上以构成词或担当一定的语法功能.Free morphemes are all roots /free roots, which are capable of being used as words or asword-building elements to form new words.自由语素都是词根, 也叫自由词根, 能用作词或作为构成新词的构词要素.Bound morphemes consist of either roots (bound roots) or affixes.粘着语素包括词根(粘着词根)和词缀.E.g., bound root: -dict-, -ced-affix: -ion, -ist, -icA multitude of words made up of merely bound morphemes, eg:-ced- 是词根,'接近',ante- 是前缀,'在…前',-ent 是后缀,'人,物',Derivational vs. inflectional morphemes派生语素与屈折语素What are derivational and inflectional morphemesDerivational morphemes are used to derive new words when they are added to another morpheme. In English derivatives and compounds are all formed by such morphemes.派生语素附着于其它语素可派生出新词.英语中派生词和合成词都是由这样的语素构成的. Inflectional morphemes indicate the syntactic relationships between words and function as grammatical markers. Inflectional morphemes are confined to suffixes.屈折语素作为语法标记表示词的语法意义,屈折语素只限于词缀.What's the difference between themInflectionalDoesn't change meaning or part of speech of the stem. (work—works)Indicates syntactic relations between different words in a sentence. ( grammatical meaning)Occurs with all members of some large class of morphemes.Occurs at margins of words. (radio—radios)DerivationalChanges meaning or part of speech of the stem.( like--dislike, sleep—asleep)Indicates semantic relations within the word.(specific lexical meaning,e.g., un-)Occurs with only some members of a class of morphemesOccurs before any inflectional suffixes added.Content / lexical vs. grammatical morphemesLexical 词汇/ content实义morphemes are morphemes used for the construction of new words as in compound words (blackbird is coined on the basis of 2 lexical morphemes: black and bird.), and derivational morphemes such as –ship, -ize.Grammatical morphemes function primarily as grammatical markers. They encompass both inflectional affixes(-books) and free morphemes ( in, and, do, have, they…functional words)3.4 Identifying MorphemesHow to identify morphemesThey should be identifiable by their forms, meaning and distribution.e.g.,mono-morphemic: skydouble-morphemic: chill + y, boy + ishtriple-morphemic: un+dress+ed, care+less+nessfour-morphemic: un+fruit+ful+nessover-four-morphemic: un+gentle+man+li+nessIn what situation do morphemes mismatch between form and meaning1) Inconsistent in form and meaning:singer ( one who)er clearer ( the comparative degree)eraser (one object)2) Meaningless in isolation but meaningful in some wordscran-huckle- berryboysen-3) Difficult to define the meaning-ceive in conceive/perceive/receive3.5 Morpheme and Word-formationIn word-formation, morphemes are labeled root, stem, base and affix.在构词法中, 语素被分为词根,词干,词基和词缀.AffixAffixes are forms that are attached to words or word elements to modify meaning or function. All affixes are bound morphemes.词缀都是粘着语素,依附在词根上构成新词或表示词的语法意义.Two types of affixes:Inflectional affixes and Derivational affixes屈折词缀和派生词缀Inflectional affixes (or inflectional morphemes) serve to indicate the syntactic relationships between words and function as grammatical markers. 表示词的语法意义的是屈折词缀.They express the following meanings:Plurality名词复数The genitive case名词所有格The comparative and superlative degrees形容词/副词比较级,最高级The verbal endings动词词尾变化e.g. -s in chairs, pens;-es in boxes, tomatoes;-en in oxene.g. 's in boy's,children'se.g. -er in words like smaller; -est in words like smallest.a. -(e)s in words like eats, teaches shows the third person singular present tense.b. -ing in words like eating, shows the present participle or gerund.c. -(e)d in words like worked shows the past tense or past participle.Derivational affixes or derivational morphemesThey can be further divided into prefixes and suffixes.(1) Prefixes are affixes before the root.e.g., unjust, rewrite.As a rule, most prefixes modify the meaning of roots, but not their parts of speech.(2) Suffixes are affixes after the rootBy the addition of the suffix, the word is usually changed from one part of speech into another, e.g. liberation, modernize.Root, stem, base词根,词干,词基A root is that part of a word form that remains when all inflectional and derivational affixes have been removed.词根是所有屈折词缀和派生词缀被去掉后所剩余的那部分.A stem is that part of the word-form which remains when all inflectional affixes have been removed.词干是所有屈折词缀被去掉后所剩余的那部分.A base refers to a form to which affixes of any kind (both derivational and inflectional) can be added. It can be a root or a stem.词基是任何一种词缀都可加在上面的形式.词根,词干,词基词根是所有屈折词缀和派生词缀被去掉后所剩余的那部分.词干是所有屈折词缀被去掉后所剩余的那部分.词基是任何一种词缀都可加在上面的形式.它与词根有区别,因为它是可以从派生角度进行分析的形式,在上面可以加上派生词缀.但是词根则不容许做进一步的分析.词基与词干也是不同的,因为派生词缀和屈折词缀都可以加在词基上,而只有屈折词缀可以加在词干上.Task: Analyse the word in terms of root, stem and base.e.g., (root/base) (derivational suffix)desire able(derivational prefix) ( base)un desirable (a.)(stem/base) (inflectional suffix)undesirable (n.) s (root/stem/base) (inflectional suffix)desire (v.) d1. desire (v.): 是词根(不可再分解),是词干(可以加屈折词缀,如过去时态-ed),是词基.2. desirable (adj.): 不是词根(可再分解);不是词干(不可以加屈折词缀),是词基(既可以加词缀,又能再分解下去).3. undesirable (n.): 不是词根(可再分解);是词干(可以加屈折词缀,如名词复数-s),也是词基.。
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Chapter 3 Word FormationI.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the bracket.B 1.The smallest functioning unit in the composition of words is called ________.A. phraseB. morphemeC. morphsD. rootD 2.Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to their position in a word, which are known as _______.A. morphsB. monomorphemic wordsC. phonemesD. allomorphsA 3.Morphemes can be classified into ________ and _________.A. free morphemes, bound morphemesB. free morphemes, affixC. affix, bound morphemesD. bound root, affixA 4. Free morphemes and free roots are _______.A. identical C. the former includes the latterB. different D. the latter includes the formerA 5. “Bird”,“earth”,“nation” belong to __________.A. free rootsB. bound morphemesC. derivational affixesD. bound rootA 6.Morphemes which cannot occur as separate words are known as _________A. bound morphemesB. free morphemesC. allomorphsD. morphemesD 7. The bound morphemes include two types: ________ and _________.A. prefix, suffixB. free root, bound rootC. affix, suffixD. bound root, affixD 8. “Nature”in the word “denaturalization” is not ________.A. free rootB. free morphemesC. stemD. bound rootB 9.In the word “contradiction”, the morpheme“-dict” is _________.A. free rootB. bound rootC. free morphemesD. affixC 10.We can put affixes into two groups: ________ and ________ affixes.A. bound, freeB. root, stemC. inflectional, derivationalD. blending, clippingD 11. “Ex-”in the word “ex-prisoner” is _________.A. free rootB. bound rootC. inflectional affixD. derivational affixD 12.Which of the following is right?A. Root and stem are identical.B. Root includes stem.C. Root and stem are completely different.D. Stem includes root.C 13. In the word “likes” and “works”, the morpheme“-s” isA. free rootB. bound rootC. inflectional affixD. derivational affixA 14. The word “subsea” includes_______ “-sub” and _______ “sea”.A. prefix, free rootB. suffix, free rootC. prefix, bound rootD. suffix, bound rootA 15. The most productive word formation is _______.A. affixationB. compoundingC. conversionD. acronymyA 16. The expansion of vocabulary in modern English depends chiefly on _______.A. word-formationB. prefixationC. suffixationD. compoundingB 17. _____ is the formation of words by adding word-forming or derivational affixes to stems.A. prefixationB. DerivationC. SuffixationD. CompoundingD18. According to the positions which affixes occupy in words, affixation falls into two subclasses: ________ and _________.A. clipping, blendingB. compounding, conversionC. conversion, derivationD. prefixation, suffixationD19. the prefix “pseudo” is _______.A. a negative prefixB. a reversative prefixC. a locative prefixD. an a pejorative prefixC20. The “de-” in decompose is _______.A. a negative prefixB. a pejorative prefixC. a reversative prefixD. an orientation prefixA21. The chief function of prefixation is to ________A. change meanings of the stem.B. change the word-class of the stem.C. change grammatical functionD. all the aboveD22. The “auto” in “autobiography” is ______.A. a negative prefixB. a locative prefixC. a reversative prefixD. a miscellaneous prefixB23. The chief function of suffixation is to ______.A.change meanings of the stemB.change the word class of the stemC.change the lexical meaningD.all the aboveC 24. The word “courageous” is created by _______.A. noun suffixesB. adverb suffixesC. adjective suffixesD. verb suffixesD 25. The meanings of “comic” and “comical” are ______.A. sameB. identicalC. similarD. differentD 26. For the word “political”, its negative form is “_______”.A. apoliticalB. ilpoliticalC. inpoliticalD. impoliticalD 27. The differences between compounds and free phrases show in _____ aspects.A. phonetic featuresB. semantic featuresC. grammatical featuresD. all the aboveB 28. _______ is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems.A. SuffixationB. CompositionC. ConversionD. ClippingA29. “Law-abiding” belongs to _______.A. adjective compoundB. noun compoundC. verb compoundD. none of the aboveB30. “Sit-in” belongs to ______.A. adjective compoundB. noun compoundC. verb compoundD. none of the aboveB31. “up-bringing” belongs to ______.A. adjective compoundB. noun compoundC. verb compoundD. none of the aboveC32. Verb compounds are created either through _______ or ________.A. affixation/ conversionB. clipping/ affixationC. conversion/ backformationD. back-formation/ borrowingA33. In compounds, the word stress usually occurs on _______ whereas in noun phrase _______ is generally stressed if there is only one stress.A. the first element/ the second elementB. the second element/ the first elementC. the first element/ the first elementD. the second element/ the second elementB 34. Most compounds consist of only ______ stems.A. threeB. twoC. fourD. fiveB35. Words mainly involved in conversion are _______.A. nouns, verbs and adverbsB. nouns, adjectives and verbsC. nouns, prepositions and verbsD. adjective, adverbs and verbsD36. The derivational process, in which an item is converted to a new word class without the addition of an affix, is called ______.A. full conversionB. partial conversionC. semantic shiftD. zero derivationB 37. The “house” in the “the peasant housed him” belongs to the conversion ________.A. between noun and adjectiveB. between noun and verbC. between verb and adjectiveD. none of the aboveB 38. Nouns converted from adjectives have all the characteristics of nouns and achieve a full noun status, thus known as _______.A. partial conversionB. full conversionC. functional shiftD. grammatical shiftD 39. Nouns partially converted from adjectives do not possess all the qualities a noun does. They must be used together with ________.A. plural formsB. single formsC. adjectivesD. definite articlesC 40. The conversion of two syllable nouns into verbs involves a change of _______.A. spellingB. pronunciationC. stressD. functionD41. Words produced by conversion are primarily _______.A. nounsB. adjectivesC. verbsD. all the aboveA 42. The most productive conversion is the conversion that takes place _______.A. between nouns and verbsB. between nouns and adjectivesC. between verbs and adjectivesD. none of the aboveB43. The overwhelming majority of blends are ______.A. verbsB. nounsC. adjectivesD. adverbsA44. Back-formation is therefore the method of creating words by _______ the supposed suffixes.A. removingB. shorteningC. addingD. writingB45. Back-formation is considered to be the opposite process of ______.A. prefixationB. suffixationC. acronymyD. conversionB46. Words formed by acronymy can be divided into initialisms and acronyms depending on _____.A. the grammatical functionB. the pronunciation of the wordsC. the spelling wayD. none of the aboveD47. Word formation excludes _______.A. affixation and compoundingB. conversion and shorteningC. clipping, acronymy and blendingD. repetition and alliterationII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.T 1. Creation of new words is an important way of vocabulary expansion.F 2. Word is the minimal meaningful unit of a language.F 3. The morphemes which are realized by only one morph are called allomorphs.T 4. Free morphemes are morphemes which alone can be used as words.T 5. There are different ways of classifying morphemes.T 6. Free morphemes are known as free roots.T 7. Inflectional affixes are grammatical markers.T 8. The root “-ced” means “approach or go to.”F 9. What remains of a word after the removal of all affixes is a stem.T 10. A form to which an affix of any kind can be added is called a stem.F 11. The expansion of vocabulary in modern English depends chiefly on semantic change.T 12. There are always exception while the word-formation rules are appliedT 13. Prefixes do not generally change part of speech whereas suffixes do.F 14. The “hyper” in “hyperactive” belongs to orientation prefixed.F 15. Compounding is the process creating new words by combining affixes and bases.F 16. Half-converted adjective are used as common nouns while full-converted ones still retain adjective features.T 17. Acronyms are words of initial letters which are pronounced as common words.T 18. The conversion between nouns and verbs may involve a change of stress.F 19. The word “flu” is formed by back-formation.T 20. Words from proper names are another source of English vocabulary.T 21. The most productive ways of word-formation are affixation, compounding and conversion. T 22. Shortening includes clipping and blending.T 23. Prefixation and suffixation are two sub branches of affixation.F 24. Suffixation is the formation of new words by adding prefixes to stems.T pounding is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems.T 26. A limited number of verb compounds are created either through conversion or backformation.F 27. Verb compounds in the way of back-formation are formed mainly by dropping prefixes.T 28. Conversion is the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class. These words are new only in a grammatical sense.T 29. Blending is the formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word.F 30. Clipping, a way of making a word is to shorten a longer word by cutting a part off the original and adding a new part to the original.F 31. Words, formed through acronymy are called initialisms or acronyms, depending on the spelling of the words.T 32. Backformaion is the method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes.III. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions.1. Morphemes are a_______ units realized in speech by discrete units known as m_______. abstract, morphs2. “Man, car, anger” are independent of other morphemes, which are known as r________. free morpheme/root3. According to the functions of affixes, we can put them into groups: i_______ and d_______affixes. Inflectional, derivational4. Affixes attached to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationship are called i_______. inflectional morphemes5. S_______ can be defined as a form to which affixes of any kind can be added. Stem6. Morphemes fall into different classes by different criteria. Now people tend to group morphemes into f________ and b_________. free morphemes, bound morphemes7. Derivational affixes can be further divided into p________ and s________. prefixes,suffixes8. A r_______, whether free or bound, generally carries the main component of meaning in a word.root9. Affixation, also called d______, is one of the word formations. devivation10. According to suffixation theory, “villager” is called denominal noun and “employer” is called d______ noun. deverbal11. Prefixes do not generally change w________ of the stem but only modify its meaning. word class12. Not all the words that are produced by applying the word-forming rule are a_______. acceptable13. An alternative for conversion is f________. functional shift14. Such words as “the richer”, “the poor”, “the most corrupt” are all examples of f______. partial conversion15. A_______ is the process of forming new words by joining the initial letters of names of social and political organizations or special phrases and technical terms. Aronymy16. The words “autocide” and “telex” are formed by b_______. blending17. Point out how the following words are formed.prefixation: disobey, postwar, amoral, antinuclear, maltreat …suffixation: changeable, exploitation, swimmer, employer, contradictor …compounding: daydreaming, meeting-room, record-breaking, stockholder …acronymy: G-man, SALT, BBC …clipping: pop…blending: botel, sci-fi, telex, smog…back formation: donate …conversion: shadow (v.), pocket (v.) …word from proper name: ampere, watergateIV. Answer the following questions.1. What are the differences between root and stem?A root is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity. The root whether free or bound generally carries the main component of meaning in a word.A stem may consist of a single root morpheme as in “iron” or of two root morphemes as in a compound like “handcuff”. It can be a root morpheme plus one or more affixational morphemes as in “mouthful”. Therefore, a stem can be defined as a form to which affixes of any kind can be added.2. How do you distinguished compounds from free phrases? Give examples to support your point.Three major criteria:a. phonetic criterion – stress pattern. In a compound, the stress usually falls on the first element whereas in a free phrase the stress occurs on the second element. For example: (omitted)b. semantic criterion. The meaning of a compound is generally different from the combination of the two elements whereas that of a free phrase is not. For example: (omitted)c. grammatical criterion. Each compound is a grammatical unit which is inseparable, so generally no changes should occur within it. For example, (omitted)V. Analyze and comment on the following.1. Analyze the morphological structure of the following words in terms of free morpheme and bound morpheme, then explain the differences between the two kinds of morphemes.UnhappilyIdealistic2. Analyze the morphological structure of the following words. Point out the types of the morphemes.ConsistentlyReminderImperialisticANSWER:1.(1) Each of the two words consists of three morphemes: unhappily (un+happy+ly), idealistic(ideal+ist+ic)(2)“Happy” and “ideal” are free morphemes; un-, -ly, -ist and –ic are bound morphemes.(3)Free morphemes have complete meanings in themselves and can be used as freegrammatical units in sentences. Bound morphemes must be bound to other morphemes to form words.2. (1) Each of the three words consists of three morphemes: consistently (consist+ent+ly) , remainder (re+mind+er) , imperialistic (imperial+ist+ic) .(2) Of the nine morphemes, only “consist”,”mind”and ”imperial” are free morphemes as they can exist by themselves.(3) All the rest –ent,--ly,re--,--er,--ist,--ic are bound morphemes as none of them can stand alone as words.VI. Fill the blanks1. Study the following words and identify: a.types of morphemes underlined; b. types of bound morphemes underlined.(1)windy ( ) suffix(2)manly ( ) free morpheme(3)works ( ) inflectional affix(4)maltreat ( ) prefix(5)beautiful ( ) free morpheme(6)usually ( ) suffix(7)predict ( ) bound root(8)hardest ( ) inflectional affix2. Study the following words and identify: 1)types of idioms; 2) types of word meaning;3) types of word formation; 4) types of bound morpheme underlined(1) heart and soul ( ) adverb idiom/idiom adverbial in nature(2) father—male parent ( ) conceptual meaning(3) mother—female parent ( ) conceptual meaning(4) city—bred ( ) n+v-ed(5) lip—reading to lip—read ( ) backformation(6) headache ( ) n+v(7) antecedent ( ) bound root(8) preview ( ) prefix(9) receive ( ) bound root(10) called ( ) inflectional affixVII. Change the construction of the following sentences by converting the verbs into nouns according to the model.Eg: Will you please label your luggage?Will you please put labels on your luggage?1.He nailed a lid on a box.2.They surprised us with a visit.3.Mrs. Smith coaches students for English examination.4.I am completely disgusted with the food at the restaurant.5.William will referee the football match.6.He was crippled in an accident.VIII. Study the following sentences and fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the words given in the brackets.1.The head of a large company has many _____. (responsible)2.The increase in production depends on the increase of ________. (produce)3.The lectures given by the professor are meaningless to anyone outside his _______.(special)4.The students are convinced of their teacher’s _____ (loyal) to the teaching cause.5.It is such a complicated ________ (philosophy) problem that I can’t understand it at all.6.The young artist wrote to the Art School of Harvard University for _______ (admit) to theMA programme.7.They finally failed in ________ (adhere) to their religious beliefs.8.As the society develops, there will be _______ (marriage) between people of differentcultures and nationalites.9.In modern society, large-scale technology brings ________ (centre) of industrialproduction.10.We found the plan Mr. Smith came up with was quite ______. (practice)。