21世纪到来,科学技术日新月异,信息知识瞬息万变。近几年来,词汇学领域出现了不少新的研究成果。为了紧跟时代步伐,与时俱进,笔者感到有必要对《教程》进行修订。本书把原第三章的某些内容独立成章,进行了重写。第二章新增两节,阐述当代英语的特征和发展趋势。对辞书部分进行了较大的改动,不仅增加了20世纪90年代未期和21世纪前三年出现的新辞书,还专辟一节详尽地介绍四部优秀词典,大增加了该书的时效性和实用价值。[1]
Chapter 1 The Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulanr
1.1 The Definition of a Word
1.2 Vocabulary
1.3 Sound and Meaning
1.4 Sound and Form
1.5 Classification of Words
1.Basic Word Stock and Nonbasic Vocabulary
2.Content Words and Functional Words
3.Native Words and Borrowed Words
Questions and Tasks
Chapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary
2.1 The Indo-European Language Family
2.2 Three Phases of the Historical DeveloDment
1.Old English(450?1150)
2.Middle English(1150--1500)
3.Modern English(1500 up to the present)
2.3 General Characteristics
1.Receptivity,Adaptability and HeteFOgeneity
2.Simplicity of Inflection
3.Relatively Fixed Word?order
2.4 Foreign Elements in the English Vocabularv
1.Latin
2.Greek
3. French
4. Scandinavian
5. Other Foreign Elements
2.5 Growth of Contemporary English Vocabulary
2.6 Modes of Vocabulary Development