- •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
Арнольд, И.В. Лексикология современного английского языка / И.В. Арнольд; на англ. яз. – 3-е изд. – М.: Высш. шк., 1986. – C. 153–164.
Лексикология английского языка / Р.З. Гинзбург [и др.]; на англ. яз. – 2-е изд., испр. и доп. – М.: Высш. шк., 1979. – C. 127–140.
Смирницкий, А.И. Лексикология английского языка / А.И. Смирницкий. – М.: Изд-во лит. на иностр. яз., 1956. – С. 71–83, 99–100.
Харитончик, З.А. Лексикология английского языка / З.А. Харитончик. – Минск: Вышэйш. шк., 1992. – С. 166–176.
5.2. English Phraseology
Key words: stability vs. changeability, idiomaticity vs. motivation, word equivalence, set expressions, idioms, phraseological units (PhU), phraseological fusions, phraseological unities, phraseological collocations; traditional collocations, idioms proper, ready made utterances; free (variable) context combinations – non-variable (stable) context combinations, phrasemes vs. idioms.
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
Motivation and variability of word combinations.
Free phrases versus phraseological units. Criteria and difficulties of differentiation.
Types of phraseological units. Classifications and their evaluation.
Linguistic laws of PhUs formation. Activity of words and syntactic patterns.
Contrastive study of phraseology. Common sources as the foundation for equivalent phraseological units. Socio-cultural properties of phraseological units.
Questions and Tasks
Analyze the following word combinations and comment on their meaning and variability of the components: settle the future of the country, shake hands on (over) the bargain, sink or swim, speak of the devil and he is sure to appear, wait for the postman, for a friend, for the train, for instructions.
Classify the following phraseological units using semantic, contextual and functional criteria: drenched to the bone, a break in the clouds, creditors have better memories than debtors, good egg, put all one’s eggs in one basket, separate the husk from the grain, Attic salt, to lick the boots, break bread with smb, shoot the bull.
Recommended Reading
Арнольд, И.В. Лексикология современного английского языка / И.В. Арнольд; на англ. яз. – 3-е изд. – М.: Высш. шк., 1986. – C. 153–164.
Лексикология английского языка / Р.З. Гинзбург [и др.]; на англ. яз. – 2-е изд., испр. и доп. – М.: Высш. шк., 1979. – C. 127–140.
Смирницкий, А.И. Лексикология английского языка / А.И. Смирницкий. – М.: Изд-во лит. на иностр. яз., 1956. – С. 71 – 83, 99–100.
Харитончик, З.А. Лексикология английского языка / З.А. Харитончик. – Минск: Вышэйш. шк., 1992. – С. 166–176.
Topic 6 The Structure of the English Lexicon
Key words: formal classifications, semantic classification of lexicon, seme, semantic feature (atomic predicate), semantic marker, semantic distinguisher, semantic (lexical) field, lexico-semantic group (LSG), thematic group, lexical paradigm, semantic taxonomy, synonym, antonym, hyponym, hyperonym, meronym, cycle, chain, frame.
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.