《現(xiàn)代英語詞匯學教程》是《求知高等學校英語專業(yè)系列教材》之一，它面向英語專業(yè)本科學生，對詞匯學的一些傳統(tǒng)內容進行了合理的整合，同時又吸收了近年來詞匯研究的諸多新成果，涵蓋了詞匯與語法的關系、英語詞匯的詞源學研究、構詞法、詞的意義及意義關系、詞的語用研究、多詞表達及利用語料庫考察詞匯型式等主要論題，還附有對中國英語學習者學習詞匯十分有用的一些工具性內容，如常用詞根表、詞綴表等。是英語學習者不可或缺的專業(yè)書籍。

Chapter 1Introduction: Word, Vocabulary and ~cology
I.THE NOTION OF 'WORD' ~
1. Do Words Exist
2.Bloomfield's Definition of Word
3.Characteristics of Words
lI.THE ORGANIZATION OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY
1.The Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations
2.Word Classes
3.Lexical Fields
m.LEXICOLOGY AND OTHER LEVELS OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
1.Lexicology and phonology
2.Lexis and Grammar:Two Forms of Patterning
3.Lexicology and Semantics
IV. SUMMARY ~
Exercises.-.;
Chapter 2 English Vocabulary: A HistoricalPerspective
I.THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY ~
II. THE ENGLISH PEOPLE AND THE ENGLISHLANGUAGE
m. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY
i.The Old English Period
2.The Middle English Period
3.Modem English Period
IV. SUMMARY
Exercises
Chapter 3 Borrowing as a Source of EnglishWord-Stock
I. THE SIZE OF ENGLISH WORD-STOCK
If. THE NATIVE WORDS OF THE ENGLISHLANGUAGE
m. BORROWING: AN OVERVIEW
IV. MAJOR SOURCES OF BORROWING
I.LatinBorrowings
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