- •I. Lexicology. Word as its main object
- •I. Translate all the terms:
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Match the branches of lexicology with descriptions (Lexical phonetics; semasiology, onomasiology, etymology, phraseology, lexicography, lexical morphology, word-formation)
- •II. Lexical meaning
- •I. Read and translate:
- •III. A) Determine the lexical and the grammatical meaning of the italicized words.
- •VI. Determine the meaning of the underlined word in each phrase. Use an English – English dictionary. Group together phrases in which the word has the same meaning.
- •VII. Define the type of transfer which has taken place: metaphor or metonymy
- •III. Systemic relations in the vocabulary
- •I. Read and translate:
- •II. Answer the questions:
- •III. A) Find homonyms for the following words and state the type of homonymy (homonyms proper, homographs, homophones):
- •IV. Use a dictionary (e.G., Collins English Dictionary in Lingvo) to say whether these words are homonyms or meanings of the same polysemantic word:
- •V. Are these ideographic or stylistic synonyms? Which of these words have emotive connotations?
- •VI. Find similar-sounding words often confused in speech. State the difference in their meaning and/or usage and their interrelation (homonyms, synonyms, paronyms, words with the same root)
- •IV. Replenishment of Vocabulary Stock.
- •I. Answer the questions:
- •Phraseology.
- •I. Answer the following questions:
- •IV. Explain whether the semantic changes in the following phraseological units are complete or partial. Paraphrase them.
- •Morphology
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Decide to what part of speech the underlined words belong:
- •3. State the grammatical category that the given groups of word-forms represent:
- •4. Describe the grammatical meaning of the underlined words:
- •1. Answer the following questions:
I. Lexicology. Word as its main object
I. Translate all the terms:
word, morpheme, word combination, phoneme, lexicology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, grammar, morphology, synchrony, diachrony, semantics, semasiology, onomasiology, etymology, morphemics, lexicography, phraseology
II. Answer the following questions:
Why can language be called a system?
What is the difference between language and speech?
What levels are there in language as a system?
What is the difference between general and special lexicology?
In what way does a word differ from a phoneme?
In what way does a word differ from a phoneme?
--- a morpheme?
--- a word combination?
What is the difference between studying the word syntagmatically and paradigmatically?
III. Match the branches of lexicology with descriptions (Lexical phonetics; semasiology, onomasiology, etymology, phraseology, lexicography, lexical morphology, word-formation)
It deals with the process of nomination: what name this or that object has and why.
It studies the expression plane of lexical units in isolation and in the flow of speech.
It deals with the morphological structure of the word
It deals with phraseological units
It deals with the meaning of words and other linguistic units: morphemes, word-formation types, morphological word classes and morphological categories
It deals with the patterns which are used in coining new words
It is a practical science. It describes the vocabulary and each lexical unit in the form of dictionaries
It studies the origin, the original meaning and form of words
IV. Determine whether these are different words or variants of the same word: color – colour, classic – classical; lie (on the bed) – lie (to your mother); often [ofn] – often [often]; ox – oxen; formulas – formulae; ingenuous – ingenious, pig (an animal) – pig (an untidy person), learned [id] – learned [d], learned – learnt.
II. Lexical meaning
I. Read and translate:
Lexical, grammatical, notion, concept, context, distribution, content plane, expression plane, connotation, denotative meaning, emotive, stylistic, polysemantic, monosemantic, lexico-semantic variant, primary/secondary meaning, specialization, generalization, metaphor, metonymy, elevation, degradation, hyperbole, litotes
II. Answer the questions: 1. What are the main approaches to word meaning? 2. What is the basic semantic triangle? 3. What is the difference between notion and lexical meaning? 4. What is the difference between lexical and grammatical meaning? 5. Are there any words that have no lexical meaning? 6. What are the two major components in the structure of lexical meaning? 7. What is denotative meaning? 8. What is connotative meaning? 9. What types of connotation do you know?
10. What is the difference between polysemantic and monosemantic words? 11. What is the difference between primary and secondary meanings? 12. What is the difference between central and peripheral meanings? 13. How can we determine what meaning the word has in the sentence? 14. What types of semantic changes do you know? 15. What is metaphor? 16. What is metonymy?