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 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