学习英语词汇学应该具备哪些基本知识

我们大二刚刚上完这门课，要具备的基本知识不是很多，主要是对英语的发展历史有一定的了解，英语和其它印欧语系之间的一些联系，以及一些基本的词根词缀知识和分析词汇结构的能力。这些都会在词汇学中作进一步的学习，问题不大。这门课学好的话，对掌握英语单词会很有帮助。

《英语词汇学》知识点归纳

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English Lexicology(英语词汇学)
Lexicology: is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and meanings of words.
Chapter 1--Basic concepts of words and vocabulary
Word:A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function. (1)a minimal free form of a language (2)a sound unity (3)a unit of meaning (4)a form that can function alone in a sentence
Sound and meaning: almost arbitrary, “no logical relationship between the sound which stands for a thing or an idea and the actual thing and idea itself”
Sound and form:不统一的四个原因
（1）the English alphabet was adopted from the Romans,which does not have a separate letter to represent each other
（2）the pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling over the years
（3）some of the difference were creates by the early scribes
（4）the borrowings is an important channel of enriching the English vocabulary
词汇Vocabulary: all the words in a language make up its vocabulary
词语分类Classification of English Words：
1.By use frequency:basic word stock&nonbasic vocabulary
基本词汇的特征:
1)All-National character（全民通用性most important）