- •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
In the following passage Cockney (rhyming slang) phrases replace the following words. Identify them. Answer:
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A
boots
G
table
M
road
S
believe
B
faces
H
mouth
N
house
T
hair
C
telephone
I
eyes
O
row
U
wife
D
sun
J
pub
P
milk
E
look
K
daughter
Q
suit
F
kids
L
tenpound note
R
stairs
The current bun [1] shone brightly as he left rub-a-dub [2] in good time and set off down the frog and toad [3] towards the cat and mouse [4] where his soap and water [5] lived.
4.1. Identify a historism in one of these sentences:
What is my valley to thee that thou shouldst tarry in it? Get thee gone, and come here no more.
For many weeks activities were confined to long range shots from bows and arbalests and a few stones from the catapults that had been erected just out of range of these effective hand weapons.
One afternoon I saw boys with catapults aiming, as I thought, at a high garden wall.
Its take-off from a carrier deck will be assisted by a catapult, which might be described as a giant slingshot.
4.2. Identify lexical archaism:
…the trusty messenger who bare the child across his saddle-bow stooped from his weary horse…
Then the negroes seized the youngest of the slaves and knocked the gyves off, and filled nostrils and ears with wax…
And of everything he met he made inquiry if perchance they had seen his mother.
…and their hired men drave him away, and there was none who had pity on him.
4.3. Identify a grammatical archaism:
H
Dialect
A geographical variety of language (e.g. American English, Scotish English, etc.) as well as a variety according to social class.
is courtiers had all taken their leave of him and he retired to the Great Hall of the Palace.…so will I spend thee away now, for thou hast wrought me no good.
He had already proclaimed himself suspicious of Master Simmon’s bona fides.
“…have we got no children enough of our own, that thou must needs bring a changeling to sit by the hearth?..”
Sometimes common British terms leave other English speakers in the fog. Try to find their meaning.