英语词汇学练习--2012年11月12日

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一、Fill the blanks with the proper words.

1、the branch of linguistics that studies the stock of words (the lexicon) in a given language.

2、Naturally, lexicology is a theoretically-oriented course concerning with the basic theories of words in general and in particular, but also a practical one dealing with copious stocks of words and idioms, a great many usage examples. such as ；；；；；

3、is a subject studying the meaning of language.

4、is the study of origins and history of the form and meaning of words-----how the small, Germanic vocabulary has grown into a huge modern English vocabulary and explain the changes have taken place in the forms and meanings of words.

5、is a branch of grammar which studies the structure or forms of words, primarily through the use of morpheme construct------how morphemes are combined to form words and words to form sentences.

6、Words can be classified into the basic word stock and nonbasic word stock by , into content words and functional words by and into native words and borrowed words by .

7、A is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that

roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single word.

8、Any concrete realization of a morpheme in a given utterance is called .

9、(also known as denotative meaning) is the meaning given in the dictionary and forms the core of word meaning. It forms the basis for communication as the same word has the same conceptual meaning to all the speakers of the same language.

10、refers to the meaning embodied by different word orders, sentence structures, stresses and emphases.

二、Define the following terms.

1、Lexicology

2、Content words

3、Collocative meaning

4、Homonyms

5、prefixation

6、suffixation

三、Answer the following question.

1、How do you distinguish compounds from free phrases?

2、What is the difference between lexical meaning and grammatical meaning?

Answers:

一、Fill the blanks with the proper words.

1、Lexicology

2、morphology, semantics, etymology, stylistics； lexicography

3、Semantics

4、Etymology

5、Morphology

6、use frequence；notion；origin

7、lexeme

8、morph

9、Conceptual meaning

10、Thematic meaning

二、Define the following terms.

1、Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and meanings of words, aims at investigating and studying the morphological structures and word equivalents, their semantic structures, relations, historical development, formation and usages. Naturally, lexicology is a theoretically-oriented course concerning with the basic theories of words in general and in particular, but also a practical one dealing with copious stocks of words and idioms, a great many usage examples. such as morphology, semantics, etymology(词源学;词源说明), stylistics(文体论).