Questions and Tasks

1. Study the following word forms and say whether they are analyzable into smaller meaningful segments: quickness, temptation, walked, asks, smiling, morphology, learner, learners. Say on what grounds their segmentability is based.

2. Comment on the lexical and structural (syntactic) types of meaning of the constituent elements of the given words.

3. State on what basis the borderline between inflexional and derivational morphology can be drawn. Comment on the moot problems of their differentiation.

4. Say for what purposes the segmentation of words is carried out. Give examples of the hearer’s segmentation strategies.

5. Analyze the following words: readability, affection, telepathy, explain, confuse, horrid, bilberry, hammock, roommate, cardiac and name their ultimate constituents. Dwell on the procedure of your analysis. Find your own examples of words the morphemic segmentation of which is problematic. Give your solutions.

6. Name the source of difficulties in the morphemic analysis of the following English words: raspberry, happy, English, complain, understand, kneel. Find your own examples of analogous cases.

7. Comment on the morphemic types of the following English words: postcard, reexamination, spriteliness, unrecognizableness, seedcake, geometry, optionalize, multilayer, multidisciplinary, laryngotracheobronchitis.

Recommended Reading Obligatory

Английская лексикология в выдержках и извлечениях / C.С. Хидекель [и др.]. – Л.: Просвещение. Ленингр. oтд-ние, 1969. – С. 86–116.

Арнольд, И.В. Лексикология современного английского языка / И.В. Арнольд; на англ. яз. – 3-е изд. – М.: Высш. шк., 1986. – C. 77–107.

Лексикология английского языка / Р.З. Гинзбург [и др.]; на англ. яз. – 2-е изд., испр. и доп. – М.: Высш. шк., 1979. – C. 23–25, 89–114.

Смирницкий, А.И. Лексикология английского языка / А.И. Смирницкий. – М.: Изд-во лит. на иностр. яз., 1956. – С. 48–70.

Харитончик, З.А. Лексикология английского языка / З.А. Харитончик. – Минск: Вышэйш. шк., 1992. – С. 110–148.

Beard, R. The Agenda of Morphology / R. Beard // Словообразование в английском языке: Хрестоматия по лексикологии английского языка / сост. З.А. Харитончик, И.В. Ключникова. – Минск: МГЛУ, 2005. – С. 21–37.

Heatherington, M.E. The Forms of Language / M.E. Heatherington // Словообразование в английском языке: Хрестоматия по лексикологии английского языка / сост. З.А. Харитончик, И.В. Ключникова. – Минск: МГЛУ, 2005. – С. 5–20.

Optional

Кубрякова, Е.С. Основы морфологического анализа / Е.С. Кубрякова. – М.: Наука, 1974. – С. 118–131.

Anderson, S. A-Morphous Morphology / S. Anderson. – Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992. – P. 7–72.

Spencer, A. Morphological Theory. An Introduction to Word Structure in Generative Grammar / A. Spencer. – Oxford: Blackwell Publ., 1993. – P. 3–61.