The branch of lexicology that is devoted to the study of meaning is known as …

# Semasiology

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Semasiology studies the change in … which words under go?

# meaning

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Concept is …..

# a category of human cognition.

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Meaning comprises ….

# the interrelation of linguistic signs with categories and phenomena outside the scope of language

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The functional approach maintains that the meaning of a linguistic unit may be studied through …..

# its relation to other linguistic units

Word meaning is ……

# homogeneous

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The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words is …..

# grammatical meaning

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The component of meaning proper to the word as a linguistic unit is…..

# lexical meaning

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The component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible is …….

# denotational meaning

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One of the objective semantic features proper to words as linguistic unit and forms part of the connotational component of meaning. It is……

# emotive charge

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The smallest two-facet language unit possessing path sound-form and meaning is…. .

# the morpheme

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The semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all others containing identical morphemes is ….

# differential meaning

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The main criterion in morphological motivation is …. .

# relationship between morphemes

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Morphological motivation is ….. .

# relative

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A direct connection between the phonetically structure of the word and its meaning is ….

# phonetical motivation

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The relationship between the central and the coexisting meaning of a word is … .

# semantic motivation

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Change of meaning is effected through association between ...

# the existing meaning and the new

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The factors causing semantic changes may be subdivided into …. .

# extra –linguistic and linguistic

Monosemantic word are word having

# one meaning

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If polysemy viewed word may retain its previous meaning or meanings and at the same time acquire one or several new ones.

# diachronically

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Synchronically polysemy is understood as …

# the coexistence of various meanings of the same word at a certain historical period

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The words different languages which are similar or identical in lexical meaning are … .

# correlated words

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Words identical in sound –form but different in meaning are…… .

# homonyms

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Words homonymous in all their forms are… .

# full homonyms

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Lexical homonyms differ in

# lexical meaning

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Derivational affixes serve

# to form different words;

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Affixation, word-composition and conversion are

# principal and productive ways of forming new words;

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What is blending?

# telescoping, reduplication;

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What is shortening?

# a significant subtraction in which part of the original word is taken away;

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Semantically morphemes are classified as

# root and affixational morphemes;

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What is an allomorph?

# a positional variant of a morpheme occurring in a specific environment;

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Lexicography deals with

# the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries;

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What are hybrids?

# words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages;

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Semasiology is the branch of Lexicology that deals with

# the study of word meaning;

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Free word-groups are

# words put together to form lexical units;

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Perfect homophones are

# words identical in spelling and sound-form but different in meaning;

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Which of the following compounds are non-transparent?

# center-forward, woman-doctor, eye-specialist;

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Metonymy is based on

# contiguity of meaning;

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What is a phraseological unit?

# functionally and semantically inseparable word-groups;

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The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problems in

# lexicography;

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Which of the following line contains only form words?

# from, oh!, so-so;

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The main types of dictionaries are

# general and special;

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Synonyms for the word “to hope” is

# to expect, to look forward, to anticipate;

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The following words dormitory, fall elevator, apartment are typical for

# American English;

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Red tape, mare's nest are

# phraseological fusions;

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Which of the following words have derived stems?

# beautiful, girlish, activate;

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Varieties of the English language peculiar to some districts and having no normalized literary form are

# local dialects;

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The words glamour, kilt, raid, came into English from

# the Scottish dialect;

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Which of the following words is the case of a metaphor?

# the bonnet of the car;

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Which of the following homonyms are partial?

# match (n) -match (v);

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Which of the given words stand for the American variant of the word “flat”?

# apartment;

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Which of the following words are homonyms proper?

# bank (n) – bank (n)

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Dictionaries of toponyms are

# special dictionaries;

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Metaphor is a transfer of name based on

# the association of similarity;

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Which of the following synonymic groups belong to total (complete or absolute synonymy?

# functional affix, inflection, flexion;

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Homographs are

# words identical in spelling, but different both in their sound-form and meaning;

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Which of these nouns are derived from verbs?

# a break, a catch, a jump;

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Compound derivatives contain

# not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme;

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Sources of synonyms are

# all the above mentioned cases;

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Phraseology studies

# free word-combinations and phraseological units:

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Check for the synonyms to the word «to look»

# to see, to gaze, to blame;

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What common element do the words cities, tables, relations have?

# the grammatical meaning of plurality;

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The root of the word is

# the semantic nucleus, the basic part of a word to which affixes are added;

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Complete the following idiom of comparison «as busy as ...»

# as busy as a bee;

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Long-legged, left-handed, sky-colored are

# compound derivatives;

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