第一讲：背景与基本概念.ppt

Warm-up;“Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.” --By D. Wilkins “If you spend most of your time studying grammar, your English will not improve very much. You will see most improvement if you learn more words and expressions. You can say very little with grammar, but you can say almost anything with words.” --Dellar H and Hocking D ;English Lexicology;lexico-: Gr lexikos of words -ology: F logie the study of sth lexicology: the study of words futurology zoology apology ;Can you give more words with “-ology”？;Definition;Morphology studies the form of the word, Etymology studies the history of the word, Semantics studies the meaning of the word, Stylistics studies the style of the word, Lexicography studies the making of dictionaries.;Books of the Course;Contents of the Course;Contents of the Course;Lead-in Class language and basic concepts ;The Origin of Language;onomatopoeia;5651 languages According to various degrees of similarity and their geographical distribution, languages are roughly classified into 300 language families ;Chinese: Sino-Tibetan ;(学);兹谨北密桅冲铆躺著什擎临冠饺咒慷涎宵彤变休痴危取转影故姆板松薛圣第一讲：背景与基本概念第一讲：背景与基本概念;English: Indo-European;2) The Celtic civilization (6th – 2nd cts BC) The first inhabitants: Celts=BritonsL Language: Celtic=BritishL ;;;Three periods of English;;;English as a melting-pot;English ;More Examples;Task 1: Fill in the blanks according to the text.;Task II: True or False;Homework;I: make a chronological diagram of EL;Time;II main characteristics of EL;II main characteristics of EL;II main characteristics of EL;Part II: basic concepts in Lexicology vocabulary Word Morpheme Allomorph Root Stem/Base ;Vocabulary;Word;Compare:;Classification of words;The basic word stock non-basic vocabulary ;The basic word stock non-basic vocabulary;Content words functional words;Native words borrowed words;Morpheme;(1)?free morphemes： refer to those that