Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulary
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
1.5.1 Basic Vocabulary and Non-basic Vocabulary
1.5.2 Content Words and Functional Words
1.5.3 Native Words and Borrowed Words
Chapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary
2.1 The Indo-European Language Family
2.2 Three Phases of the Vocabulary Development
2.2.1 Old English (450-1150)
2.2.2 Middle English (1150-1500)
2.2.3 Modern English (1500 up to the present)
2.3 General Characteristics
2.3.1 Receptivity, Adaptability and Heterogeneity
2.3.2 Simplicity of Inflection
2.3.3 Relatively Fixed Word Order
2.4 Foreign Elements in the English Vocabulary
2.4.1 Major Foreign Elements
2.4.2 Minor Foreign Elements
2.5 Growth of Contemporary English Vocabulary
2.6 Modes of Vocabulary Development
2.6.1 Creation
2.6.2 Semantic Change
2.6.3 Borrowing
Chapter 3 Morphological Structure of English Words
3.1 Morphemes
3.2 Morphs and Allomorphs
3.3 Classifying Morphemes
3.3.1 Free and Bound Morphemes
3.3.2 Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes
3.3 . 3 Content and Grammatical Morphemes
3.4 Identifying Morphemes
3.5 Morphemization and New Morphemes
3.6 Morpheme and Word Formation
3.6.1 Affix
3.6.2 Root, Stem, Base
Chapter 4 Word Formation
4.1 Affixation
4.1.1 Prefixation
4.1.2 Suffixation
4.2 Compounding
4.2.1 Characteristics of Compounds
4.2.2 Formation of Compounds
4.3 Conversion
4.3.1 Conversion to Nouns
4.3.2 Conversion to Verbs
4.3.3 Conversion to Adjectives
4.3.4 Changes Involved in Conversion
4.4 Blending
4.5 Clipping
4.6 Acronymy
4.6.1 Initialisms (alphabetisms)
4.6.2 Acronyms
4.7 Back-formation
4.8 Sound Reduplication
4.9 Commonization of Proper Names
4.9.1 Words from Proper Names
4.9.2 Morphological Processing
4.9.3 Use of Commonized Words
Chapter 5 Word Meaning and Componential Analysis
5.1 Word Meaning
5.1.1 Reference
5.1.2 Concept
5.1.3 Sense
5.2 Motivation
5.2.1 Onomatopoeic Motivation
5.2.2 Morphological Motivation
5.2.3 Semantic Motivation
5.2.4 Etymological Motivation
5.3 Types of Meaning
5.3.1 Grammatical Meaning
5.3.2 Lexical Meaning
5.4 Componential Analysis
Chapter 6 Sense Relations
6.1 Polysemy
6.1.1 Two Approaches to Polysemy
6.1.2 Two Processes of Development
6.2 Homonymy
6.2.1 Types of Homonyms
6.2.2 Origins of Homonyms
6.2.3 Differentiation of Homonyms from Polysemants
6.2.4 Rhetoric Features of Homonyms
6.3 Synonymy
6.3.1 Definition of Synonyms
6.3.2 Types of Synonyms
6.3.3 Sources of Synonyms
6.3.4 Discrimination of Synonyms
6.4 Antonymy
6.4.1 Three Types of Antonyms
6.4.2 Characteristics of Antonyms
6.4.3 The Use of Antonyms
6.5 Hyponymy
6.6 Semantic Field
Chapter 7 Changes in Word Meaning
7.1 Types of Change
7.1.1 Extension of Meaning
7.1.2 Narrowing of Meaning
7.1.3 Elevation of Meaning
7.1.4 Degradation of Meaning
7.1.5 Transfer of Meaning
7.2 Mechanism of Change
7.3 Causes of Change
7.3.1 Extra-linguistic Factors
7.3.2 Linguistic Factors
Chapter 8 Meaning and Context
8.1 Types of Context
8.1.1 Extra-linguistic Context
8.1.2 Linguistic Context
8.2 The Role of Context
8.2.1 Elimination of Ambiguity
8.2.2 Indication of Referents
8.2.3 Provision of Clues for Inferring Word Meaning
Chapter 9 English Idioms
9.1 Characteristics of Idioms
9.1.1 Semantic Unity
9.1.2 Structural Stability
9.1.3 Idiomaticity
9.2 Classification of Idioms
9.2.1 Noun Idioms
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