Required Reading

O b l i g a t o r y :

1. Arnold I.V. The English Word. M., 1973, pp. 112-139.

2. Ginzburg R.S. et al. A Course in Modern English Lexicology. – M., 1979, pp.13-28.

3. Верба Л.Г. Порівняльна лексикологія англійської та української мов. – Нова книга,2003,с. 18-67

4. Ніколенко А.Г. Лексикологія англійської мови. – Нова книга, 2007.

O p t i o n a l :

1.Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка: Учебник для студ. пед. ин-тов по спец. № 2103 «Иностр. яз.». – М.: Высшая школа, 1985, C. 99-113.

2. Английская лексикология в выдержках и извлечениях. Пособие для студентов пед. ин-тов (на англ. яз.). – 2-е изд. – Л.: Просвещение, 1975, C. 9-85.

3. Кубрякова Е.С. Типы языковых значений: Семантика производного слова. – М.: Наука, 1981.

4. Манакин В.Н. Сопоставительная лексикология. К., 2004, с. 150-250.

5. Медникова Э. М. Значение слова и методы его описания. М., 1974, с. 6-15.

6. Мостовий М.І. Лексикологія англійської мови. – Х., 1993, C. 66-129.

7. Никитин М.В. Лексическое значение слова. М., 1983, с. 6-62.

9. Никитин М.В. Основы лингвистической теории значения, М., 1988.

10.Раєвська Н.М. English Lexicology. – K., 1971, pp.107-203.

11. Шмелев Д.Н. Проблемы семантического анализа лексики. – М., 1973.

Tasks and Exercises

1. Discuss the meaning of the words house, white, die in connection with the problem “concept - meaning”.

A house in the country. A full house. Every word was heard in all parts of the house. White House. An ancient trading house in the city. A noisy cheerful house. To keep house. To bring down the house. To leave one’s father’s house. On the house.

White clouds. White hair. A white elephant. The white race. White magic. White meat. As white as snow. White wine. It’s white of you. White lie.

Die of hunger. Die a violent death. Die in one’s bed. The day is dying. Die to the world. I’m dying to know. His secret died with him. Die in harness. Die game. Never say ‘die’.

2. Explain the motivation of the following words and word-groups:

a driver, unanswerable, skin-deep, home-made, to winter, to water, a bee, a snake, book for a needle in a bundle of hay, catch at a straw, babble, basketball, blooming health, bookshelf, bottleneck, boyish, bump, buzz, catlike, chatter, chirrup, crash, eatable, foot of a mountain, giggle, green with envy, handkerchief, head of a procession, heart of the country, howl, key to a mystery, legs of a table, lioness, mow, nightgown, nose of a plane, overgrow, prefabricated, purr, skilful, splash, swish, teacher, tinkle, tongues of flame, travelling-bag, twitter, watery.

3. Explain the absence of motivation in the following words and word-groups:

big, red, to read, baker’s dozen.

Test Questions and Tasks

А. Consider your answers to the following:

What is uderstood by semantics?

What are the two approaches to the problem of meaning?

What are the various types of word-meanings?

What are the types of morpheme-meanings?

What is uderstood by motivation?

What are the types of motivation?

B. Match the Ukrainian term with the corresponding English equivalent.

Semasiology	Коннотація
Semantics	Лексичне значення
Referent	Дистрибутивне значення
Concept	Семасиологія
Meaning	Референт
Distribution	Денотативне значення
Grammatical meaning	Значення
Denotation	Граматичне значення
Connotation	Дистрибуція
Differential meaning	Дифференційне значення
Distributional meaning	Поняття
Motivation	Мотивація