第一章课后练习

Questions and Tasks

1.  What is a word?

2.   In what way are words related to vocabulary?

3.   Illustrate the relationship between sound and meaning with examples.

4. Enumerate the causes for the differences between sound and form of English words.

5.  Give examples to show the influence of early scribes on English spelling.

6.  What are the characteristics of the basic word stock?

7. Choose the standard meaning from the list on the right to match each of the slang words on

    the left.

a.  tart                  girl  

b.  bloke                police

c.  gat                  great  

d.  swell                drunk   

e.  chicken              coward   

f.  blue                 loose woman  

g.  smoky               pistol   

h.  full                 fight    

i.  dame                fellow   

j.  beaver               woman   

8.  Explain neologisms with examples.

9.  What is the fundamental difference between content and functional words?

10. How do you account for the role of native words in English in relation to loan-words?

11. Categorize the following borrowed words into denizens, aliens, translation loans and semantic  

Loans.

Kettle       confrere      chopstick     dream    die       pro patria    black humour

skirt     parvenu     typhoon  wall       Wunderkind      long time no see

Husband        mikado