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现代英语词汇学复习
第一章词的概述;
1.识记:
词的定义
2.声音与意义
识记:
声音与意义的关系
3.声音与拼写
识记:
读音与拼写不一致的原因
4.词汇
识记词汇的含义
5.词汇的分类
识记:
词汇的分类原则;基本词汇的特点;四类外来语词的特点。
领会:
基本词汇及本族语词在英语中的地位和重要性
Whatisword?
词具有哪些特点?
词的特点也就是对词的名词解释。
1)AwordisaminimalfreeformofaIanguage;
2)Asoundunityoragivensound;
3)aunitofmeaning;
4)aformthatcanfunctionaloneinasentence.
以上词的四个特点也就是词的名词解释
词的分类(classificationofaword)
词根据发音可以分为哪两种词?
或者说词根据拼写可以分为哪两类词?
1)simplewords2)complexwords
单音节词例子:
e.g.Manandfinearesimple
多音节词例子:
e.g.Management,misfortune,blackmail
management可以次划分为manage和-ment
misfortune可以次划分为mis-和fortuneblackmail次划分为black和mail
Whatistherelationshipbetweensoundandmeaning?
1)Thereis‘nologicalrelationshipbetweenDthedsandactualthing.e.g.dog.cat
2)Therelationshipbetweenthemisconventional.
3)IndifferentIanguagesthesameconceptcanberepresentedbydifferentsounds.Whatisrelationshipbetweensoundandform?
1)Thewrittenformofanaturallanguageisthewrittenrecordoftheoralform.Naturallythewrittenformshouldagreewiththeoralform,suchasEnglishIanguage.
2)ThisisfairlytrueofEnglishinitsearlieststagei.e.OldEnglish
3)WiththedevelopmentoftheIanguage,moreandmoredifferencesoccurbetweenthetwo.
Whatarethegreatchangesthatcausesillogicalrelationshiporirregularitybetweensoundandform?
1)TheinternalreasonforthisisthattheEnglishalphabetwasadoptedfromtheRomans,whichdoesnothaveaseparatelettertorepresenteachsoundintheIanguagesothatsomelettersmustdodoubledutyorworktogetherincombination.
2)Anotherreasonisthatthepronunciationhaschangedmorerapidlythanspellingovertheyears,andinsomecasesthetwohavedrawnfarapart.
3)Athirdreasonisthatsomeofthedifferenceswerecreatedbytheearlyscribes.
4)Finallycomestheborrowing,whichisanimportantchannelofenrichingtheEnglishvocabulary.
要记住以上四句话中的关键词:
1)influeneedbyRomans
2)Pronunciationchanged
3)earlyscribes
4)borrowing
你能不能举出外来语对英语发音,拼写造成不一致的例子有哪些?
e.g.stimulus(L),fiesta(Sp),eureka(Gr),kimono(Jap)
外来语对英语造成的最大的影响就是’soundandform'不一致。
Whatisvocabulary?
VocabularyreferstothetotalnumberofthewordsinaIanguage,but
itcanstandforallthewordsusedinaparticularhistoricalperiod.
Vocabularyalsoreferstoallthewordsofagivendialect,givenbook,agivendisciplineandthewordspossessedbyanindividualperson.
ClassificationofWords(本课的一个重点)
Whatistheclassificationofwords?
Howtoclassifywordsinlinguistics?
Threecriteria:
1)Byuseoffrequency2)Bynotion3)Byorigin
Byuseoffrequency可戈U分为:
1)Thebasicwordstock2)Nonbasicwordvocabulary
Bynotion可划分为:
1)Contentword2)Functionalword
Contentwordsarealsoknownasnotionalwords.(Contentwords的别称)
Functionalwordsarealsoknownasemptywords,orformwords.(Functionalwords的别称)
Functionalwordspossessesacharacteristicofbasicwordstock,i.e.stability
AccordingtoStuartRobertson,etal(1957),*theninefunctionalwords,namely,and,be,have,it,of,the,to,will,you
Whatarethecharacteristicsofbasicwordstock?
1)Allnationalcharacter
2)Stability
3)Productivity
4)Polysemy
5)Collocability
要把握住’Allnationalcharacter'的词,就是和我们日常生活息息相关的,最普通的词稳定性是基本词的一个很大特点,请你举例说明?
e.g.man,woman,fire,water…
e.g.machine,video,telephone…
e.g.bow,chariot,knight
Stabilityisrelative,notabsolute.
Nonebasic
根据词的usefrequency划分出的基本词之外,还有一类词叫作
vocabulary,非基本词有几大特点?
或者是几大分类?
1)Terminologye.g.sonata,algebra
2)Jargone.g.Bottomline(Jargon)
3)Slange.g.smoky,bear(Slang)
4)Argote.g.persuader
5)Dialectalwordse.g.station(AusE=ranch)bluid(ScotE=blood)
6)Archaismse.g.wilt(will)
7)Neologismse.g.email(Neologisms)
beaver是girl的slang表达方式,但是二者之间存在着Stylisticdifferenee
WhichconstitutesthelargernumberamongEnglishvocabulary,contentwordsorfunctionalwords?
Answer:
Contentwords
Whatisnativewords?
Answer:
(1)Byorigin,Englishwordscanbeclassifiedintonativewordsandborrowedwords.
(2)NativewordsarewordsbroughttoBritaininthefifthcenturyby
theGermantribes:
theAngles,theSaxons,andtheJutes,thusknowasAnglo-Saxonwords.
(3)WordsofAnglo-Saxonoriginaresmallinnumber,amountingtoroughly50,000
to60,000,buttheyformthemainstreamofthebasicwordstockandstandatthecoreoftheIanguage
什么叫borrowedwords?
Answer:
(1)wordstakenoverfromforeignIanguagesareknowasborrowedwordsorloanwordsorborrowingsinsimpleterms.
(2)ItisestimatedthatEnglishborrowingsconstitute80percentofthemodernEnglishvocabulary
(3)TheEnglishIanguagehasvastdebts」nanydictionarysome80%oftheentriesareborrowed.
什么叫Denizens?
DenizensarewordsborrowedearlyinthepastandnowarewellassimilatedintotheEnglishIanguage.InotherwordstheyhavecometoconformtotheEnglishwayofpronunciationandspelling,suchasportfromportus(L).
‘Denizens的例子都要记:
Portfromportus(L),cupfromcuppa(L),
shiftfromskipta(ON),shirtfromskyrta(ON),changefromchangier
(F),porkfromporc(F).
什么叫Translation-loans?
Translation-loansarewordsandexpressionsformedformtheexistingmaterialintheEnglishIanguagebutmodeledonthepatternstakenfromanotherIanguage,suchas
‘longtimenoseefromhaojiumeijian(Ch)
什么叫Semantic-loans?
wordsofthiscategoryarenotborrowedwithreferencetotheform,Buttheirmeaningareborrowed,inotherwords,EnglishhasborrowedanewmeaningforanexistingwordintheIanguage,suchastheworddream,whichoriginallymeant'joyand
‘music',anditsmodernmeaningwasborrowecFrtaitetheNorse.
6•英语词汇的形成与发展
1)印欧语系的谱系关系
a)识记:
印欧语系的主要分支以及分支的主要现代语言。
2)英语词汇发展的历史回顾
a)识记:
英语词汇发展的三个历史阶段:
古英语词汇、中古英语词汇和现代英语词汇及其特点。
3)当代英语词汇发展的状况
a)识记:
当代英语词汇发展的现状。
b)领会:
词汇发展的主要原因。
4)词汇发展的方式
识记:
英语词汇发展的三个主要方式:
创造新词、旧词新义、借用外来语词。
领会:
各种方式在现代英语词汇发展中的地位和作用
ThedevelopmentoftheEnglishvocabulary
TheIndo-EuropeanLanguageFamily
Itisassumedthattheworldhasapproximately3,000(someputit5,000)languages,whichcanbegroupedintoroughly300Ianguagefamiliesonthebasisofsimilaritiesintheirbasicwordstockandgrammar.重点:
语系戈U分的标准)WhatisthecriteriatodivideIanguagefamilies?
Theanswer:
1.thebasisofsimilaritiesintheirbasicwordstock2.grammar
(重点)TheBalto-Slaviccomprisessuchmodernlanguagesa选择题内容:
)Prussian,Lithuanian,Polish,Czech,Bulgarian,SlovenianandRussian.
'Indo-European两大分支:
1.Easternset
2.Westernset
Easternset:
Balto-Slavic,Indo-Iranian,ArmenianandAlbanian
Westernset:
Celtic,Italic,Hellenic,Germanic.
InthewesternSet,GreekisthemodernlanguagederivedfromHellenic.
Celtic:
Scottish,Irish,Welsh,Breton
ThefiveRomaneelanguages,namely,Portuguese,Spanish,French,Italian,RoumanianallbelongtotheItalic.TheGermanicfamilyconsistsofthefourNorthernEuropeanLanguages:
Norwegian,Icelandic,DanishandSwedish,whicharegenerallyknownasScandinavianlanguages.ThenthereisGerman,Dutch,FlemishandEnglish.WithVikings'invasion,manyScandinavianwordscameintotheEnglishlanguage.
Itisestimatedthatatleast900wordsofScandinavianoriginhavesurvivedinmodernEnglish.
OldEnglishhasavocabularyofabout50,000to60,000words.ItwasahighlyinflectedlanguagejustlikemodernGerman.
重点句:
ModernEnglishbeganwiththeestablishmentofprintinginEngland古英语最大的模糊性的概念来自于(scripts)
古英语正因为出现印刷术才打破了(earlyscripts)
Soundandform真正达到统一是在什么时期?
.Soundandformreachedtheirconcordin(ModernEnglishperiod)如果从词汇变化的角度而言,ModernEnglish又可以细划分为earlyperiod,modernperiod.
*现代英语早期阶段属于哪一种文化现象的发展时期(重要的选择或填空内容)
EarlymodernEnglishappearedintheRenaissanee
ModernEnglishperiod有什么样的外来语的进入?
TheLatinwordsswarmedintoEnglishinearlymodernEnglishperiod现代英语时期,英语词汇大量丰富还有另外一个原因是(colonization)
TherichnessofModernEnglishinvocabularyalsoarisesfrom
(Colonization)
TheEnglishIanguagehasevolvedfromasyntheticIanguagetothepresentanalyticIanguage(重要选择或填空内容)
GrowthofPresent-dayEnglishVocabulary
Threemainsourcesofnewwords:
1)Therapiddevelopmentofmodernscieneeandtechnology
2)Social,economicandpoliticalchanges;
3)TheinflueneeofotherculturesandIanguage
ModesofVocabularyDevelopment
1)creation2)semanticchange3)borrowing
2)Semanticchange(还包括外来词的Semanticloans)
Elevation,degradation,extension,narrowing,transfer
外来词可以被称作borrowedwords,因此又可以被称作.
重点句:
borrowedwordsarealsoknownasloanedwords.
恢复古英语的用词是美国英语的一大特色
RevivingarchaicorobsoletewordsalsocontributestothegrowthofEnglishvocabularythoughquiteinsignificant.ThisisespeciallytrueofAmericanEnglish.英语从syntheticIanguage发展至Upresentanalyticallanguage是在英语的哪一个阶段完成的?
答案:
ModernEnglishperiod
文艺复兴时期,恰逢英语发展的哪个阶段?
答案:
EarlyModernEnglishperiod
在英语发展过程在哪个阶段出现三语鼎立的现象?
French,Latin,EnglishinMiddleEnglishperiod
easel,port,freight,出现于英语发展的哪个阶段,属于哪一种外来词的引入?
答案:
MiddleEnglish,Dutch
在英语发展的某一个阶段,有一种语言进入英语,它一共带来了2500个词汇,这种语言是什么?
答案:
Dutch
据现代语言学家的统计,英语中目前所占本族词的数量有多少?
答案:
50,000to60,000他们的来源是(AngIo_Saxontongue)
第二次世界大战以后,大量外来词进入英语中,女口:
Maojackets,blackbelt,kongfu,这些词属于英语词汇发展的Present-dayEnglishVocabulary注意:
第二章出大题的内容无非就是请简述印欧语系的发展与组成。
OldEnglish和MiddleEnglish最大的strikingdistinction存在于哪一个方面?
答案:
OldEnglishwasaIanguageoffullendings,MiddleEnglishwasoneofleveledendings.
文艺复兴时期,哪两种文化得到了复兴,这