- •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
Методические рекомендации по выполнению контрольной работы
В соответствии с учебным планом предусмотрено выполнение контрольной работы, в конце курса сдается экзамен. ВНИМАНИЕ: без зачета по контрольной работе и по реферату студенты к итоговому экзамену не допускаются.
До экзамена студент должен выполнить контрольную работу, которая выполняется в отдельной тетради, и сдать реферат, тему которого определяет преподаватель.
Перед выполнением контрольной работы каждый студент получает индивидуальный номер варианта. В тетради следует указать номер своего варианта. При выполнении контрольной работы ставится номер задания и переписывается его содержание.
Контрольные задания располагаются в соответствии со структурой учебной программы. Выполнять их следует в том порядке, в котором они расположены в работе.
Контрольная работа состоит из двух частей: теоретическая часть включает написание краткого конспекта на тему, данную в контрольной работе (ВНИМАНИЕ: темы распределяются по вариантам только преподавателем); практическая часть включает выполнение заданий с опорой на теоретическую часть. Выполнение контрольной работы рекомендуется начинать с конспектирования теоретической части и далее переходить к практической части.
Список рекомендуемой литературы приведен в конце данного пособия.
Оглавление
LEXICOLOGY AND ITS ROLE AMONG OTHER LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINES 4
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENGLISH LEXICON 4
ETYMOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENGLISH LEXICON 8
MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENGLISH LEXICON AND WORD-FORMATION 11
SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF A WORD. CHANGES IN SEMANTIC STRUCTURES 14
SYNONYMIC AND ANTONYMIC RELATIONS IN THE ENGLISH LEXICON 16
COLLOCABILITY AND COMBINABILITY IN MODERN ENGLISH. PHRASEOLOGY 18
LANGUAGE – DIALECT – VARIANT 22
LEXICOGRAPHY 23
Список тем для самостоятельной работы 24
Литература 25
Lexicology and its role among other linguistic disciplines
Study the following topics and make up the précis
Lexicology and other sciences.
Characteristics of a word as the main unit of language and speech.
Types of lexical units.
Lexical and grammatical meanings.
The issue of a word in semantic, structural and functional aspects.
Diachronic and synchronic approaches to the study of the word-stock.
The structure of the English lexicon.
Classification of the word-stock of the English language.
General treatment of lexical structures.
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations.
Peculiarities of the Modern English lexicon (one-syllable words, homonymy, role of polysemantic lexical units, context, borrowings).
Assignments
1. What is meant by the lexical and grammatical meanings in a word? Provide specific examples and relevant explanations.
2. What is a paradigm? Provide the definitions.
3. Complete the paradigm of the following words:
Woman, friend, people, run, work
Comment on the differences in the paradigms of the word “people”
4. Interpret the following lexical unit from the point of view of DIACHRONIC and SYNCHRONIC approaches: beggar.