Seminar 5

“Lexical Syntagmatics”

Discussion:

1. Lexical syntagmatics (general description).

2. Semantic word relationships. Free word – combinations.

3. Proper lexical word relationships. Phraseological units.

4. Lexico-semantic word relationships. Set non-phraseological units.

Practice:

Practicum – Tasks 130-132, pp.415-423.

Literature:

1. Современный английский зык (слово и предложение). – Иркутск, 1997. – С. 226-231.

Practice: Task 130

Examine the contexts and identify the types of the word-combinations:

a) a free word-combination;

b) a phraseological unit;

c) a set non-phraseological unit.

1. Would a small child know that? (Oxford Advanced Learner's Encyclopedic Dictionary).

2. Only somebody with a small mind would have refused to help (Oxford Advanced Learner's Encyclopedic Dictionary).

3. It's such a small world! (J.M. Cain).

4. She [Elsa] was very conservative in her habits, and ex­cept for slight variations our routine was the same every day: an early morning walk, followed by her midday slumber close to me by our tree on the river-bank (J. Adamson).

5. Someone else decided that he ought to fall in love (K. Mansfield).

6. The sea was as flat as a pancake and the sun was heavy and hot... (J. Jones).

7. Happy New Year!

8. We tiptoed to the door, turned off the room light, and went downstairs (J. Wyndham).

9. You know why you're here, of course, so we needn't beat about the bush (A.J. Cronin).

10. His attitude towards his prodigal son was that of stern, unrelenting resentment (Fr. Norris).

11. He could not resist the facetious answer which came to his mind (W.S. Maugham).

12. “Рооr man," said Mother without conviction when we had all stopped laughing (G. Durrell).

13. A sea trip does you good when you are going to have a couple of months of it, but, for a week, it is wicked(J.K. Jerome).

14. "This is a pretty kettle of fish," he said (W.S. Maugham).

15. You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and hang a leg! (R.L. Stevenson).

Task 131

Are you sure that you know the meanings of these phrases?

Set I

What are the following?

1. Russian tea: 8. Greek gift:

a) tea with lemon served in glasses a) expensive

b) tea with milk and sugar b) unusual

c) tea with dried carrots c) dangerous

2. Irish coffee: 9. Turkish delight:

a) coffee without milk a) a type of drug

b) cold coffee without sugar b) sweets

с) coffee with cream and whisky c) a pretty girl

3. Scotch egg: 10. Dutch courage:

a) scrambled eggs a) the courage that one gets from drinking alcohol

b) an egg wrapped in sausage b) cowardice

c) a small egg c) insolence

4. Swiss roll: 11. English disease:

a) a kind of cake with jam or cream inside a) chicken-pox

b) a register b) flu

c) a tricycle c) depression

5. Irish bull: 12. French windows

a) an animal a) a type of doors

b) a dancing-party b) windows made of dark glass

c) absurdity c) double-glazing windows

6. German shepherd: 13. Scotch mist:

a) a dog a) dung produced by Highland cattle

b) a farmer b) the words of a drunken Scotsman

c) a soldier c) a type of rain

7. Welsh uncle: 14. Double Dutch:

a) a rich uncle a) a person whose parents are Dutch

b) a distant relative b) gibberish

c) an uninvited guest c) a double decker

Set II

Choose the correct translation of the underlined phrases:

1. "Clementina," she explained, "insisted upon a Welsh rabbit after her lesson. She is such a queer girl. Welsh rabbits at five in the afternoon. The General was there. You should have seen him run for the chafing dish, Joe, just as if there wasn't a servant in the house (O. Henry).

a) кролик по-валлийски

b) яичница с помидорами

c) гренки с сыром

2. Across the street was a drug store well lighted; sending forth gleams from the German silver and crystal of its soda fountain and glasses (O. Henry).

a) нержавеющая сталь

b) мельхиор

c) серебро