- •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
- •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:
- •General characteristics of the english lexicon
- •Assignments
- •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
Etymological characteristics of the english lexicon
Study the following topics and complete the assignments bellow. Provide the corresponding précis.
Etymological sources of the English lexicon.
Types of native words. Interrelation between native and borrowed elements.
Borrowings and their classification. Mechanisms of borrowing.
Assimilation. Degree of assimilation.
Folk (popular) etymology.
International words.
Etymological doublets.
Translation-loans.
Cultural orientation of words.
Interrelation of etymological and stylistic characteristics of words.
Assignments
Write the English meaning of each root or prefix below:
BI {Latin}
as in
BILINGUAL
KYKLOS {Greek}
as in
BICYCLE
TELE {Greek}
as in
TELEPHONE
ANNUS {Latin}
as in
ANNUAL
PED {Latin}
as in
PEDESTRIAN
VERTO {Latin}
as in
INTROVERT
PANIS {Latin}
as in
COMPANY
DENDROS {Greek}
as in
DENDROLOGY
Give the Russian equivalents for the following foreign words:
Faux-pas, chic, ennui, terra firma, blasé, cachet, détente, terra incognita.
Give the meaning and the origin of the following words and names used as words:
Boycott, Frank Merriwell, namby-pamby, silhouette, damask, nimrod, manna from heaven, romance, girl Friday, simony, Aesopian language, Rip van Winkle, mess of pottage, scapegoat, like Caesar’s wife, sword of Damocles, Hobson’s choice, cutting the Gordian knot.
(a) Match the words on the left with those on the right. (b) Explain their origin.
ATONEMENT
DECIMATE
DICHOTOMY
EPHEMERAL
HECATOMB
PROTAGONIST
PROTOCOL
PROTOTYPE
QUATRAIN
SAMITE
SESQUIPEDALIAN
TRAVAIL
transitory
person playing a leading role
four-line stanza
great slaughter
very long
expiation
agony
established code of ceremonial procedure
destroy a large part of
division into two parts
first of its kind
heavy silk fabric
Trace the meaning of the following words and names according to their origin in mythology.
Penelope
Atlas
Chaos
Nymph
Helen
Morphine
Phaeton
Circle
Leander
Satyr
(a) Give the origin of the following lexical units. (b) Explain their meaning:
The apple of discord
Pygmalion
Athen(a)eum
Bedlam
Halcyon days
Hackneyed
Orpheum
Vandalism
The judgement of Paris
Match each word on the left with the correct word or phrase on the right:
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CONQUISTADOR
FORTISSIMO
FRACAS
HACIENDA
HARI-KARI
INCOGNITO
INSOUCIANCE
JANISSARY
JUDO
KRAAL
PATINA
POLTERGEIST
REPLICA
SARONG
SAVANT
{Spanish}
{Italian}
{French-Italian}
{Spanish}
{Japanese}
{Italian}
{French}
{Turkish}
{Japanese}
{Afrikaans}
{Italian}
{German}
{Italian}
{Malay}
{French}
subservient follower
ritual suicide
stockaded village
greenish crust on metal
ghost
noisy dispute
reproduction
very loud
large country house
cloth worn like a skirt
conqueror
learned man
under an assumed name
freedom from care
type of wrestling