- •Contents
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- •Section II etymological survey of the english word-stock
- •Section III morphological structure of the english word. Word-formation
- •Section IV lexical meaning as a linguistic category. Semantic analysis of words. Polysemy and homonymy
- •Working Definitions of Principal Concepts
- •Section V semantic classification of words. Synonymy
- •Working Definitions of Principal Concepts
- •Section VI lexical-phraseological combinability of words. Phraseological units
- •Working Definitions of Principal Concepts
- •Section VII stylistic layers of the english vocabulary. Terminology
- •Working Definitions of Principal Concepts
- •Section VIII regional varieties of the vocabulary.
- •Vocabulary of american english
- •Working Definitions of Principal Concepts
- •Section IX lexicography
- •Working Definitions of Principal Concepts
- •Part II. Word analysis Section II
- •1. Group the following words according to their origin and state the degree of their assimilation.
- •2. Study the following doublets and explain how they differ in origin and meaning.
- •3. Study examples of borrowings to explain how adopting words from other languages depends on socio-cultural factors.
- •2. Discuss these words in terms of item and arrangement. How do these words demonstrate productive patterns of affixation in Modern English?
- •6. Write the words from which the following shortenings were formed.
- •7. Comment on the formation of these words.
- •8. Study the underlined words and identify the type of word-building.
- •9. Explain how the following units were formed.
- •1. Which of the underlined words is realized in a) nominative meaning, b) nominative-derivative meaning?
- •2. Analyze the word “rich” in terms of different types of meaning.
- •3. Read the text aloud. Provide lexicological explanation of the humorous effect produced by the poem. Spell checker
- •Section V
- •“Daddy, can I have a chocolate?” said the girl to her father.
- •2. These synonymic series are adduced in the English-Russian Dictionary of Synonyms (Moscow, 1979). Do these words satisfy the definition of synonyms?
- •1) Cold, cool, chilly, chil, frosty, frigid, freezing, icy, arctic;
- •2) Impatient, nervous, nervy, unquiet, uneasy, restless, restive, fidgety, feverish, jumpy, jittery.
- •1. Study the following examples of phraseological units and use them to describe V.V.Vinogradov’s classification. Phraseological combinations:
- •Phraseological unities:
- •Phraseological fusions:
- •2. Identify free and idiomatic word-combinations and give their Russian equivalents.
- •3. Match the following adjectives and nouns to give English equivalents of the following Russian word-combinations. Can the English phrases be described as free word-combinations? Why (why not)?
- •Section VII
- •1. Study the following words and their definitions. Say what peculiarities of these words make it possible to describe them as slang words.
- •2. Read the following sentences paying attention to the words and word combinations in italics. Say whether these words are literary colloquial or low colloquial.
- •4. Study the advertisement below; find 1) colloquial words, 2) neutral words, 3) terms, 4) learned words.
- •1. Use the material below to discuss the vocabulary of American English.
- •Americanisms Proper
- •Lexical analogues
- •4. Give lexicological analysis of the following humorous poem.
- •1. Choose one of the dictionaries from the given list.
- •3. The following text contains numerous vocabulary errors. Correct them and explain how (and what kind of) dictionaries can help students of English to avoid such mistakes. Expensive Mary
- •Topics for discussion
- •References
8. Study the underlined words and identify the type of word-building.
Can You Learn To Be Chic?
The one thing you wear with everything is your hair. A great (not just good) cut is the best present you can give yourself. Ask people with hair that looks marvelous who cut it. If the price makes your hair curl, think cost-per-wear and compare it with what you paid for a party dress you put on only once or twice. Hint: Every day can be a good hair day if you are not trying to battle nature without the aid of a full-time hairdresser. Perms rarely look natural, and fighting curls in the name of trendiness is an ideal way to start the day feeling bad about yourself.
9. Explain how the following units were formed.
Divorce and Separation Support Group Series;
Rhode Island Avenue Hiker/Biker Trail Design Workshop;
Moss Hollow Creek Golf Park Family Fun Centre;
College Park Estates Citizens Association News;
The Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) Women’s Resource Centre Mission;
A black cross hair mouse pointer;
10. The text below is the advertisement of a detective film. Read the text and comment on the formation of the word ‘whodunit’. Use the vocabulary of the text to illustrate the concepts of potential words, lexical morphological categories, poly-functional affixes, string compounds.
Elegant, escapist entertainment at its stylishly European best. This Agatha Christie whodunit boasts an incredible international cast as some of the most wonderfully eccentric characters ever created. Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for her slightly dim-witted, Bible-quoting Swedish missionary. Albert Finney is the dapper detective Hercule Poirot, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train’s Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionaire before the local police arrive. Packed with sparkling dialogue and visually rich in texture, this incomparable thriller received six Academy Award nominations.
Section IV
1. Which of the underlined words is realized in a) nominative meaning, b) nominative-derivative meaning?
Babies have very delicate skin.
It’s such a delicate situation.
Don’t move – stay perfectly still.
Things are not moving as fast as we hoped.
We were deeply moved by the story she told us.
What can have moved her to behave in this way?
2. Analyze the word “rich” in terms of different types of meaning.
A rich man, rich tapestries, a rich harvest, rich soil, a rich creamy sauce, rich colours, for rich and poor alike, rich in oil sardines, rich silks, a rich field of advanced study, the rich notes of the church organ, that’s rich.
3. Read the text aloud. Provide lexicological explanation of the humorous effect produced by the poem. Spell checker
Eye halve a spelling chequer |
As soon as a mist ache is maid |
It came with my pea sea |
It nose be fore two long |
It plainly marques four my revue |
And eye can put the error rite |
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. |
Its rare lea ever wrong. |
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Eye strike a key and type a word |
Eye have run this poem threw it |
And weight four it two say |
I am shore your pleased two no |
Weather eye am wrong oar write |
Its letter perfect awl the weigh |
It shows me strait a weigh. |
My chequer tolled me sew. |