Lecture № 1 lexicology Questions for discussion
What does lexicology deal with?
What does lexicology study?
What is the origin of the word “lexicology”?
What is the difference between General Lexicology and Special Lexicology?
Why is it considered that there is a close relationship between Lexicology and Stylistics?
What is the basic task of lexicology?
What is lexicology concerned with?
What does the term «vocabulary» mean?
What does the term «word-group» mean?
What does the term «word» mean?
What do you know about morpheme?
What are free lexical morphemes?
What are free grammatical morphemes?
What are bound lexical morphemes?
What are bound grammatical morphemes?
What structural types of words do you know?
What is simple word?
What is derived word?
What is compound word?
What is compound-derived word?
What is stem?
What kinds of stems do you know?
Lecture № 2 Questions for discussion
What are the main ways of word-building in modern English?
What are the secondary ways of word-building in modern English?
What is affixation? What is affixation divided into?
What are the main and the secondary functions of suffixes?
What different classifications of suffixes do you know?
What is polysemantic suffixes?
What is prefixation?
What different classifications of prefixes do you know?
What is composition? Give the examples.
What does the structural unity of a compound word depend upon?
What are the English compounds classified according to?
What is conversion? Give the examples.
What part of speech is conversion the main way of word-building for? What meanings do the converted words have?
What are the causes of shortening words and word-groups?
What are the two main types of shortening? Give the examples.
What is graphical abbreviations? Give the examples.
What is initialism? What types of initialisms do you know? Give the examples.
What secondary ways of word-building do you know?
What is sound interchange? Give the examples.
What is stress interchange? Give the examples.
What is sound imitation? Give the examples.
What is blend? Give the examples.
What is back formation? Give the examples.
Lecture 3 borrowings
Questions for discussion
Why is the English language very rich in borrowings?
Why is the English language considered to be Lingva Franca of the twentieth century?
What criteria can be borrowings classified according to?
What are the groups of borrowings as to the first criteria – the aspect which is borrowed?
What do you know about phonetic borrowings (loan words proper)? Give the examples.
What are translation loans? Give the examples.
What are semantic borrowings? Give the examples.
What are morphemic borrowings? Give the examples.
What kinds of borrowings are there as to the classification according to the degree of assimilation?
What are completely assimilated borrowings? Give the examples.
What groups are partly assimilated borrowings subdivided into?
What are non-assimilated borrowings (barbarisms)? Give the examples.
When did classical borrowings (Latin and Greek) appear in the English language? Give the examples.
What are the semantic groups of French borrowings that came into the English language during the Norman Conquest? Give the examples.
What are the semantic groups of French borrowings that came into the English language after 1650? Give the examples.
What are the semantic groups of Italian borrowings? Give the examples.
How many borrowings from the Scandinavian language came into English as the result of Scandinavian conquest? Give the examples.
Can you give the examples of German borrowings?
How many Holland borrowings came into English? What are they connected with? Give the examples.
What Russian borrowings are there in English? What events do they reflect? Give the examples.