English and Chinese have their own conspicuous characteristics in structural systems of lexis, which are reflected in the morphological structures of words and word-formation. A contrastive study of the lexical systems of English and Chinese in such respects of morphemes and words, morphemes and affixes, positions of morphemes in words, words and nonwords, word-formation and syntax, etc. discloses that there are both similarities and differences in the vocabularies of the two languages, but the differences overwhelm similarities. This is due on...
