现代英语词汇学概论1 a general servey of English vocabulary.ppt

现代英语词汇学概论 Lexicology Chapter 1 A General Survey 1.0 The Definition of the term “word” 词的定义 1.1 The Development of English Vocabulary 英语词汇的发展史 1.2 Classification of English Words 词的分类 1.0 The Definition of the term “word” Questions: 1. How many influential definitions of “word” are there in the history? What are they? What are their defects? 2. How can we define the term “word”? Can you give an example to illustrate it? Are they “words”? Café, fiancée, hapax legomena father’s, do-it-yourself, hasn’t Donno, lol $559.34, ￡233, IBM R51 Corpus4u, :-) O(∩_∩)O哈哈~，囧rz，⊙﹏⊙b汗 Word: a fundamental unit of speech and a minimum free form; with a unity of sound and meaning (both lexical and grammatical meaning), capable of performing a given syntactic function. E.g. The young man left quietly. (young) Review Word: a minimum free form sound lexical and grammatical meaning syntactic function 1.1 The Development of English Vocabulary Questions: 1. How many stages does English vocabulary develop? 2. At each stage, there are how many origins English words come from? Native: Celtic 1st period(449-1100): Old English or Anglo-Saxon Period (OE or AS) Celtic → Anglo-Saxon (the settlement from 450 AD.) / Old Norse / Latin 2nd period (1100-1500): Middle English Period (ME) French (the Norman Conquest in 1066) Latin 3rd period (1500-present): Modern English Period Early stages of Modern English (1500-1700) Latin (Renaissance) Greek (Renaissance) Contemporary English (1700-present): Three Romance Languages : French, Spanish, Italian Other European languages: Portuguese, German, Dutch … Non-European languages (exploration, colonization, trade) 1.2 Classification of English Words Questions: 1. The main criteria by which we can classify English words? 2. According to different criteria, how can we cla