词汇专有名词定义

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1、1linguisticscanbedefinedasthescientificstudyoflanguage.2“lexikon”means“wordorphrase”3“logie”means“learningorthestudyof”4Lexicologymeans“scienceoftheword”.5Semantics:thestudyofthemeaningsofwordsandotherpartsoflanguage.6Etymology:studiesthemeanings,originandhistoryofindividualwordsandtheirdevelo

2、pment.7Phraseology(成语学）:mainlydealswithsetexpressionsandidioms.8awordis“aminimalfreeformofalanguagethathasagivensoundandmeaningandsyntacticfunction”.9Vocabulary:Totalnumberofwordsthatmakeupalanguage.10Basicwordstockisthefoundationofthevocabularyaccumulatedovercenturiesandformsthecommoncoreofth

3、elanguage.11Stability.Wordsofthebasicwordstockhavebeeninuseforcenturies,12Productivity.Wordsofthebasicstockaremostlyrootwordsormonosyllabicwords.13Polysemy.Wordsbelongingtothebasicwordstockoftenpossessmorethanonemeaning14Collocability.Manywordsofthebasicwordstockenterquiteanumberofsetexpressio

4、ns,idiomaticusages,proverbialsayingsandthelike.Instancesarenumerous.15Argot—generallyreferstothejargonofcriminals.16Dialectalwords——arewordsusedonlybyspeakersofthedialectinquestion.17Archaismsarewordsorformsthatwereonceincommonusebutarenowrestrictedonlytospecializedorlimiteduse.18Neologisms-ar

5、enewly-createdwordsorexpressions.19Aliensareborrowedwordswhichhaveretainedtheiroriginalpronunciationandspelling.20Translation-loans.Translation-loansarewordsandexpressionsformedfromtheexistingmaterialintheEnglishlanguagebutmodeledonthepatternstakenfromanotherlanguage.21Semantic-loans.Wordsofth

6、iscategoryarenotborrowedwithreferencetotheform.22Sothethreesoundsarecalledphonemesratherthanmorphemes.23themorphemeis‘thesmallestfunctioningunitinthecompositionofwords’24Allomorphs(词素变体/语素变体/形位变体)donotoccuratrandom,butarephoneticallyconditionedandthuspredictable:25Afreemorphemeisonethatcanbeut

7、teredalonewithmeaning.26Morphemes(粘附词素)whichcanmotoccur(standalone)asseparatewordsareboundmorphemes.27boundrootisthatpartofwordthatcarriesthefundamentalmeaningjustlikeafreeroot.28Affixes:affixesareformsthatareattachedtowordsorwordelemen