Part 2 Lexical Morphology

V

Morphological Structure of a Word. Affixation

Questions and tasks:

1. What is a morpheme? What’s the difference between a word and a morpheme, a morpheme and a phoneme?

2. Name the types of morphemes.

3. How do affixes differ according to their position?

4. What is a functional affix? What is a derivational affix?

5. What is morphemic analysis? How is word segmented into immediate and ultimate constituents?

6. How do affixes classified according to their origin?

7. How do affixes classified according to their productivity?

8. How do affixes classified according to grammatical categories?

9. What are allomorphs? Illustrate them.

Practical exercises:

1) Ex. 2 (p. 95) ; 2) Ex. 4 (p. 98) ; 3) Ex. 6 (p. 98) ; 4) Ex. 7 (p. 99) ; 5) Ex. 8 (p. 100) (Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. М., 2000).

Literature: 1) Arnold I.V. The English Word. Moscow, 1986 – pp. 77-107; 2) Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. М., 2000 – pp. 78–100; 3) Дубенец Э.М. Современный английский язык. Лексикология: пособие для студентов гуманитарных вузов М., СПб., 2004 – pp. 21-37; 5) Зыкова И.В. Практический курс английской лексикологии. М., 2006, pp. 52-57, 70-78.

VI

Composition

Questions and tasks:

1. Give the definition of a compound word.

2. Describe the aspects of differentiation of a compound word from a free phrase.

3. How are compounds structured? Which compounds are called endocentric and which exocentric?

4. How are compounds classified?

5. What is a semi-affix?

6. What compounds are called derivational?

7. What compounds are called reduplicative? Name groups of reduplicative compounds.

8. What is an ablaut combination?

9. What is a rhyme combination?

10. What compounds are called idiomatic and non-idiomatic?

Practical exercises:

1) Ex.2 (p. 120) ; 2) Ex. 4 (p. 123); 3) Ex. 5 (p. 124); 4) Ex. 6 (p. 124); 5) Ex. 7 (p. 124) (Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. М., 2000).

Literature: 1) Arnold I.V. The English Word. Moscow, 1986 – pp. 108-133; 2) Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. М., 2000 – pp. 104–114; 3) Дубенец Э.М. Современный английский язык. Лексикология: пособие для студентов гуманитарных вузов М., СПб., 2004 – pp. 37-48; 4) Зыкова И.В. Практический курс английской лексикологии. М., 2006, pp. 91-96.

VII

Shortening and minor types of word-building

Questions and tasks:

1. What is shortening (clipping)? Illustrate it with examples.

2. What changes are possible in the process of shortening?

3. How may a shortened word correlate with its prototype?

4. How are shortenings classified?

5. What is blending?

6. What types of blendings are recognised?

7. Characterise graphical abbreviations. Illustrate them.

8. What are the types of initialisms in English?

9. What is onomatopoeia?

10. What is sound interchange?

11. What is back-formation?

Practical exercises:

1) Ex.8 (p. 125) ; 2) Ex. 9 (p. 126) ; 3) Ex. 10 (p. 127) (Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. М., 2000).

Literature: 1) Arnold I.V. The English Word. Moscow, 1986 – pp. 134-152; 2) Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. М., 2000 – pp. 115–120; 3) Дубенец Э.М. Современный английский язык. Лексикология: пособие для студентов гуманитарных вузов М., СПб., 2004 – pp. 58-75.

VIII

Conversion

Questions and tasks:

1. What is conversion? Illustrate it with examples.

2. Is conversion a morphological or syntactic way of word-building?

3. Illustrate groups of words made by conversion.

4. Characterise the semantic relationships of words in conversion.

5. Characterise the historical development of conversion. What is patterned homonymy?

6. How can conversion be combined with other types of derivation?

7. What is substantivation? Illustrate it with examples.

Practical exercises:

1) Ex.9 (p. 100) ; 2) Ex. 10 (p. 101) ; 3) Ex. 11 (p. 102) ; 4) Ex. 12 (p. 103) (Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. М., 2000).

Literature: 1) Arnold I.V. The English Word. Moscow, 1986 – pp. 153-164; 2) Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. М., 2000 – pp. 86 – 94; 3) Дубенец Э.М. Современный английский язык. Лексикология: пособие для студентов гуманитарных вузов М., СПб., 2004 – pp. 48-51; 4) Зыкова И.В. Практический курс английской лексикологии. М., 2006, pp. 87-90. 5) Никитин М.В. Курс лингвистической семантики. СПб., 2007 – pp. 443–480.