- •Кафедра германской филологии
- •Для студентов заочной формы обучения
- •Введение
- •Методические рекомендации по выполнению контрольной работы
- •Оглавление
- •Lexicology and its role among other linguistic disciplines
- •Assignments
- •General characteristics of the english lexicon
- •Assignments
- •Complete the table using the words from the box. Do not fill the shaded boxes.
- •Identify the register reference of the following boldface words as:
- •In the following passage Cockney (rhyming slang) phrases replace the following words. Identify them. Answer:
- •4.1. Identify a historism in one of these sentences:
- •4.2. Identify lexical archaism:
- •4.3. Identify a grammatical archaism:
- •Dialect
- •Sometimes common British terms leave other English speakers in the fog. Try to find their meaning.
- •Register
- •What do the following short expressions mean?
- •Define each of the following items. Indicate any features of style, register or dialect. Use a dictionary for the purpose.
- •Replace the general, overused adjectives and adverbs with a more specific and effective one.
- •Replace the underlined words with the phrasal verbs. Use the verbs from the list in the previous exercise.
- •Etymological characteristics of the english lexicon
- •Assignments
- •Give the Russian equivalents for the following foreign words:
- •Give the meaning and the origin of the following words and names used as words:
- •Morphological characteristics of the english lexicon and word-formation
- •Assignments
- •Comment on the structure of the combinations of words given below:
- •Explain the meaning of the underlined units:
- •Semantic structure of a word. Changes in semantic structures
- •Assignments
- •Compare the semantic structure of the following words (use componential or contrastive analysis):
- •Present the semantic structure of the verb “remember”; use distributional and transformational analyses.
- •Synonymic and antonymic relations in the english lexicon
- •Assignments
- •Using a dictionary o synonyms call synonyms for all the meanings of the following words:
- •Substitute the underlined word with a synonym:
- •Classify the following synonyms into three groups: a) ideographic, b) stylistic, c)ideographic-stylistic.
- •Classify the following words and word combinations into lexical sets and decide which word is the dominant word:
- •Make up a list of all the English colour terms and find their Russian equivalents. Form hyponymic structures.
- •Collocability and combinability in modern english. Phraseology
- •Assignments
- •Using various dictionaries compare the grammatical valency of the words:
- •Give words of the same root in Russian. Compare their semantic structure and valency.
- •Give English equivalents for the Russian words:
- •From the words in brackets choose the correct one to go with each of the synonyms given below:
- •Select the adjective that best describes the noun:
- •Find phraseological units, comment on their meaning and type.
- •Explain the meaning of the following English idioms:
- •Language – dialect – variant
- •Assignments
- •Who do you think is he most likely to be speaking, an American or a British person?
- •Lexicography
- •Assignments
- •Look at the numbered parts of the page. Label the components given below with the parts of the dictionary page:
- •Using the following plan, provide a description of a dictionary:
- •Список тем для самостоятельной работы
Substitute the underlined word with a synonym:
Brisk pace; celebrated painter; changeable weather; improper story; inconstant lover; juicy fruit; succinct answer;
Convene the delegates; decide the question; describe the beauty of the scene; mislead the teacher; master all the men; hasten them along;
Too delicate for the job; lively for his years.
Classify the following synonyms into three groups: a) ideographic, b) stylistic, c)ideographic-stylistic.
Ailing, arrogant, battle, begin, behold, bicker, brawl, bright, callous, clever, commence, conflict, conquest, consume, cruel, defeat, devour, diseased, dumb, easy, eat, engorge, facile, fatuous, fight, food, grub, hard-boiled, haughty, high-hat, hoity-toity, horse, ill, inept, ingest, intelligent, light, obdurate, pace, proud, quarrel, sagacious, see, shrewd, snobbish, snooty, squabble, steed, stride, stroll, stupid, supercilious, tiff, walk.
Classify the following words and word combinations into lexical sets and decide which word is the dominant word:
Abhorrence, adoration, affection, audacity, boldness, bravery, build, chivalry, compassion, composition, constitution, construction, courage, detestation, dislike, effort, endeavour, fondness, frame, gallantry, hate, hatred, heroism, ill-will, love, nerve, passion, spunk, structure, undauntlessness, valiance, valour;
Angry, chic, cross, displeased, dressy, elegant, fashionable, furious, in a temper, incensed, indignant, infuriated, irate, modish, piqued, smart, stylish, tony
Make up a list of all the English colour terms and find their Russian equivalents. Form hyponymic structures.
Match antonyms and synonyms with the appropriate words in column A (double matching):
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A
B
Antonyms
C
Synonyms
anomalous
atavistic
captious
contumacious
feckless
glabrous
grisly
jejune
otiose
putative
appreciative
busy
competent
established
hirsute
mature
modern
normal
obedient
reassuring
carping
gruesome
hypothetical
idle
ineffective
abnormal
primitive
refractory
smooth
juvenile
Collocability and combinability in modern english. Phraseology
Study the following topics and complete the assignments bellow. Provide the corresponding précis.
COLLOCABILITY and COMBINABILITY
Lexical and syntactical (combinability) valence in English. Distribution.
The main types of word-groups in English. Norms of valence in English.
Distributional analysis and co-occurrence. Contrastive analysis.
Non-phraseological vs. Set-expressions in English. Classifications of set-expressions.
PHRASEOLOGY
Word vs. Phraseological unit:
free word groups and set expressions;
main phraseological theories.
Criteria of a phraseological unit. Definition of a phraseological unit.
Classification of phraseological units:
etymological;
structural;
semantic;
structural-semantic.
Structural types of phraseological units: closed and open. Synonymy. Homonymy and polysemy.
Proverbs, sayings, familiar quotations.