- •Минский государственный лингвистический университет
- •Практикум
- •По лексикологии английского языка
- •Seminars in English Lexicology
- •Сontents
- •Foreword
- •List of abbreviations
- •Topic 1 The English Vocabulary as the Object of Research
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •Topic 2 the Etymological survey of the English Lexicon
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •3.2. The Semantic Structure of the Word
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •3.3. Homonymy
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •4.2. Word Formation
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •4.3. Major and Minor Ways of English Word Formation
- •4.3.1. Affixation
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •4.3.2. Conversion
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •4.3.3. Word Composition
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •4.3.4. Minor Ways of English Word Formation
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •Recommended Reading
- •5.2. English Phraseology
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading
- •Topic 6 The Structure of the English Lexicon
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •Topic 7
- •Variants and Dialects of the English Language
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •Topic 8 Lexicography
- •Problems for Discussion
- •Questions and Tasks
- •Recommended Reading Obligatory
- •Optional
- •Dictionaries
- •Glossary (list of linguistic terms)
- •Sources of Definitions
- •Глоссарий лингвистических терминов
- •Источники дефиниций
- •Keys to Questions and Tasks
- •Topic 2
- •Literature
- •Dictionaries
- •Практикум по лексикологии английского языка
Recommended Reading Obligatory
Антрушина, Г.Б. Лексикология английского языка / Г.Б. Антрушина, О.В. Афанасьева, Н.Н. Морозова; на англ. яз. – 2-е изд., стер. – М.: Дрофа, 2000. – С. 115–120.
Арнольд, И.В. Лексикология современного английского языка / И.В. Арнольд; на англ. яз. – 3-е изд. – М.: Высш. шк., 1986. – C. 134–152.
Лексикология английского языка / Р.З. Гинзбург [и др.]; на англ. яз. – 2-е изд., испр. и доп. – М.: Высш. шк., 1979. – C. 187–191.
Лещёва, Л.М. Слова в английском языке: Курс лексикологии английского языка / Л.М. Лещёва; на англ. яз. – Минск: Академия управления при Президенте Республики Беларусь, 2001. – С. 89–94.
Харитончик, З.А. Лексикология английского языка / З.А. Харитончик. – Минск: Вышэйш. шк., 1992. – С. 188–191.
Bauer, L. English Word Formation / L. Bauer. – Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. – P 230–240.
Optional
Английская лексикология в выдержках и извлечениях / C.С. Хидекель [и др.]. – Л.: Просвещение. Ленингр. oтд-ние, 1969. – C. 132–145.
Елдышев, А.Н. Строение и мотивированность сокращенных слов (к проблеме взаимодействия формально-содержательных признаков в слове): автореф. дис. … канд. филол. наук: 10.02.04 / А.Н. Елдышев; Моск. гос. пед. ин-т иностр. яз. – М., 1985.
Кубрякова, Е.С. Типы языковых значений. Семантика производного слова / Е.С. Кубрякова. – М.: Наука, 1981. – С. 70–72.
Словообразование в английском языке: Хрестоматия по лексикологии английского языка / сост. З.А. Харитончик, И.В. Ключникова. – Минск: МГЛУ, 2005.
Смирницкий, А.И. Лексикология английского языка / А.И. Смирницкий. – М.: Изд-во лит. на иностр. яз., 1956. – С. 40–42.
Topic 5
Word combinability. English Phraseology
5.1. Combinability of Words and Context
Key words: a word combination (phrase), combinability (valency), lexical and grammatical valency, lexical and grammatical context, context of situation.
Look up these terms in the glossary or in the sources indicated in the bibliography to the glossary. Compare the definitions given in English and in Russian.
Problems for Discussion
A compound word – a free word combination – a phraseological unit. Problems of boundaries and criteria.
Factors of government and binding words into phrases. Lexical and grammatical valency.
Context. Types of context.
The role of context in text perception.
Questions and Tasks
Analyze the following complex units and define their status as compound words or word combinations: avalanche of ice, papers, letters, blows, missiles; till the cows come home; craft-brother; Eskimo pie; field-telegraph; field pea; field bean; fiery sun, beams, trial, eyes, speeches, horse, disposition; glow-worm; glowing eyes, furnace, admiration, account; see smth (the joke, the point, the meaning of smth, smb’s reason); international law (agreement, trade, conference, code), international lawyer; intermediate gear, intermediate steps (measures). Find your own examples of units of various types. Comment on the criteria you have used to define the type of a complex unit.
Analyze the following word combinations from the point of view of grammatical and lexical valency of their components: teach well, badly, competently, skilfully; teach children, adults, a mixed class of boys and girls; teach smb a good lesson; bring a present, his things, one’s luggage upstairs, chairs, spoons; bring an answer, good news, a message; bring snow, rain, bad weather; bring him to see my point, bring them to see the wisdom of his plan; bring smth home to smb. Give your own examples of grammatical and lexical valency of English words.
Compare the valency of the following English words to that of their Russian correlates: face (the window, the terrace, the room, the house), face smb (the problem, the task that faced us), face the danger, the future, enemy, death bravely, unflinchingly; love smb dearly, devotedly, love smth (sweets, ice-cream, comfort, mountain-climbing), love to be praised, to be admired; reply (to a letter, a question, a toast); wonder (at smb, smth, at your behavior, at her saying that); yield (to smth, to force, to pressure, persuasion, temptation).