英语词汇学笔记1
CONTENTS OF ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY

C1.   A General Survey to English Vocabulary （占8%）

1.1 Lexicology  

1.2 The Development of English Vocabulary

1.2.1 The Indo-European Family of Languages

1.2.2 The Eight Groups in Indo-European Family of Languages

1.2.3 The Seven Important Elements of English vocabulary development

1.2.4 The Three Stages of Development of the English Vocabulary:OE,ME, Modern English

1.2.5   The rapid growth of present-day English vocabulary and its cause:

1.2.5.1 Marked progress of science and technology

1.2.5.2 Socio-economic,political and cultural changes:

1.2.5.3 The influence of other cultures and languages:

1.3 The Composition of English Vocabulary

1.3.1 The Native Element and the Foreign Element of the English Vocabulary

1.3.2 The Basic Word-Stock(see1.5.1) and the Specialized Vocabularies(see 1.5.2)

1.3.3 The Three Characteristic Features of the English Vocabulary：Copious，Heterogeneous,Varied

1.4   Word

1.5   Classification of English Words According to Different Criteria

1.5.1 By Origin: Native Words and Loan Words

1.5.1.1 Native Words：1）The Fundamental Features of the Basic Word Stock（All-National character，Stability，Productivity/Word-formaing ability，Collocability/Ability to form collocations，Polysymy）；   2）The importance the basic word stock

1.5.1.2 Loan words: are those words which borrowed from other languages.

1.5.1.2.1 Types of loan words: denizens, aliens, translation loans, semantic loans

1.5.1.2.2 Origins of loan words: major from Latin,Greek,and other main languages

1.5.2 By level of usage: common,literary,colloquial,slang,technical,jargon,argot,neologisms words

1.5.3   By notion（概念）: function words, content words

1.5.3.3 The differences between function words and content words:

1.5.4   On the morphemic level （P.45,moved from C2）: simple,derived（complex) ,compound words