Lecture 1

1. Lexicology as a branch of linguistics.

2. The history of the English and Ukrainian lexicon.

3. Borrowings: their types and assimilation.

1. Lexicology as a branch of linguistics.

• Lexicology, its subject, subfields.

• Lexicology and other linguistic disciplines. General lexicology. Special lexicology. Diachronic lexicology. Synchronic lexicology. Lexicology and morphology (phonetics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, stylistics, sociolinguistics).

2. The history of the English and Ukrainian lexicon.

2.1. The history of the English lexicon.

• The origin and development of the English language.

• The structure of the English present-day lexicon. The native component. The borrowed component. Types, sources and origin of borrowings. The minor sources of borrowings into English.

• The development of the English lexicon. The Old English lexicon. The Middle English lexicon. The Modern English lexicon.

2.2. The history of the Ukrainian lexicon.

• Basic differences between English and Ukrainian.

• The origin and development of the Ukrainian language. The Old Ukrainian lexicon. The Middle Ukrainian lexicon. The Modern Ukrainian lexicon.

• Etymological survey of the Ukrainian lexicon.

• The English element in the Ukrainian lexicon. Ukrainian-English lexical cognates.

3. Borrowings: their types and assimilation.

• Assimilation of borrowings. Phonetic, grammatical, morphological and semantic assimilation.

• Degrees of assimilation of borrowed words. Completely assimilated, partly assimilated and non-assimilated borrowings.

• Types of borrowed words. Proper borrowings and translation loans. Lexical and semantic translation loans.

• Etymological doublets. Morphological doublets.

Lecture 2

1. The lexical-semantic system of a language and its elements.

2. Morphemic structure of words.

1. (4). The lexical-semantic system of a language and its elements.

• Units of language. Phonemes and their types. Morphemes and their types. Words and their classes. Phrases and their types. Sentences and their types. Superphrasal unities and their types.

• Lexical-semantic system and lexical units. Affixes, words, phrases. Productive, obsolete and new elements of a language lexical-semantic system.

• The word and its nature. The external structure of the word. Sound, graphical and morphological structure of the word and internal structure of the word.

• Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships between words.

• Phrases and their types. Free phrases. Fixed phrases (idiomatic sequences/non- idiomatic sequences). Collocations grammatical collocations/lexical collocations). Idioms.

2. (5). Morphemic structure of words.

• Morphemes. Monomorphemic, bimorphemic and polymorphemic words. Classification of morphemes. Classification of morphemes according to the role they play in constructing words. Root and affixal morphemes. Classification of morphemes according to their position in words. Prefixes and suffixes. Classification of morphemes according to the degree of freedom. Free, bound and semi-free morphemes. Zero-morpheme.

• Allomorphs.

• Morphemic segmentability of words. Segmentable words. Non-segmentable words. Conditional morphemic segmentation.