20世纪的主流语言学,如结构主义语言学和生成语言学,主张把词汇和语法截然分开,语法是抽象的句法规则,而词汇是不规则形式的清单,只是语法的附录。而当今有些理论语言学家对此持不同看法,认为词汇处于语言的核心位置,语法只不过是词汇的附录。然而,认知语言学家和语料库语言学家则认为,清单与规则之分是一种谬误,事实上词汇和语法构成难以截然分开的连续统。本文以“清单与规则之争”为切入点,梳理各语言学理论对词汇与语法关系的阐释。同时,本文还以英语浮现词缀为例,采取把词汇和语法视为连续统的整体视角,考察词汇与语法的界面,以期更好地认识彼此的内在关系。 Mainstream linguistics of the 20th century, such as structuralist linguistics and generative linguistics, advocated the separation of vocabulary and grammar, grammar is abstract syntax rules, and vocabulary is an irregular form of the list, but the grammar appendix. However, some current theoretical linguists hold different opinions about this. They think that vocabulary is at the core of language and grammar is merely an appendix of vocabulary. However, cognitive linguists and corpus linguists argue that the distinction between lists and rules is a fallacy, and that vocabulary and grammar in fact constitute a continuum that is hard to separate. In this paper, we start from “the dispute between the list and the rules”, and sort out the explanation of the relationship between vocabulary and grammar by linguistic theories. At the same time, this article also takes affixes in English as an example, taking the overall perspective of vocabulary and grammar as the continuum, examining the interface of vocabulary and grammar in order to better understand each other’s internal relations.