- •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
Morphological characteristics of the english lexicon and word-formation
Study the following topics and complete the assignments bellow. Provide the corresponding précis.
Word vs. Morpheme:
morphological structure of a word;
classification of morphemes;
structural types of words.
Word-building mechanisms: derivation and composition.
Affixation:
affixes, semi-affixes and their classification;
morphological structure of stems;
meaning and polysemy of affixes;
synonymy and homonymy of affixes;
productivity and frequency;
allomorphs;
etymological background of affixes.
Conversion:
conversion and different parts of speech;
semantic relations between converted words;
types of conversion;
the ‘Stone-wall’ problem.
Back-formation: semantic relations between words.
Composition:
Types of compounds. Compound word forming mechanisms.
Principles of classification: subordinate, coordinative, syntactic, asyntactic, endocentric, exocentric, idiomatic, non-idiomatic, bahuvrihi compounds.
Compound vs. Word group.
Other Word-building Mechanisms:
Shortening, clipping, blending.
Reduplication: Structural types of reduplicated words.
Accent shift and umlaut.
Onomatopoeia: Definition of the phenomenon and classification of onomatopoeic words.
Methods of study of a morphological structure of a word
Morphemic Analysis
Structural Word-formation Analysis
Morphological (Immediate Constituents) Analysis
Assignments
Analyse the following words morphologically:
ailment
beggarly
bookworm
drawback
disappointment
intake
judicious
nourishment
priggish
readable
reconciliation
renowned
superman
workmanship
theatre-goer
Compare and comment on the semantic structure of the following pairs:
AIR – TO AIR
EYE – TO EYE
JERK – TO JERK
NOTE – TO NOTE
PREY – TO PREY
WATER – TO WATER
Compare and comment on the difference in meaning in the following pairs:
discover – uncover
disbelief – unbelief
disqualified – unqualified
disarranged – unarranged
disclaim – unclaim
disgraceful – ungraceful
Classify the following compounds:
Baby-sit
blackboard
black-eyed
bluebell
skyscraper
bluestocking
daybreak
cease-fire
colour-blind
sweetheart
forget-me-not
fountain-pen
henpeck
good-for-nothing
up-to-date
lady-killer
man-eater
narrow-chested
carsman
whitewash
Comment on the structure of the combinations of words given below:
A sports-car agency; a fur-lined boot; a small T-shirt; Jane, our late made-of-all-work; corn-coloured chiffon; little tidbit in the Afro-American; to disembark a stoneway; a cagelike crate; a slightly stoop-shouldered man; a somewhat matter-of-fact manner.
Supply the missing prefix (Anglo-Saxon or Latin) to complete the word so that it becomes a synonym of the word alongside it:
e.g. BEWILDERED _________FUSED answer: CONFUSED
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FORGIVE
_____CAST
_____SEER
BECLOUD
_____DONE
DEJECTED
SUPERVISOR
_____FUSCATE
_____GUILE
_____LOOK
BEWITCH
UNDERMINE
DECEIVE
DISREGARD
_____CHANT
____VERT