Questions:

1. What is motivation? What types of motivation are there?

2. What is phonetic motivation? Give examples of phonetically motivated words.

3. What is sound symbolism? Give examples for and against it.

4. What is morphological motivation?

5. Prove that in some cases the morphological structure of a word is not enough to deduce its meaning.

6. Give example of applying diachronic approach to motivation.

7. What is folk motivation?

8. What is semantic motivation? Give examples.

1 As terminological confusion has caused much misunderstanding and often makes it difficult to grasp the semantic concept of different linguists we find it necessary to mention the most widespread terms used in modern linguistics to denote the three com­ponents described above:sound-form — concept — referent

symbol — thought or reference — referent

sign — meaning — thing meant

sign — designatum — denotatum