Практическое занятие №6 Word building (continued)

Plan.

1. Frequency and productivity of suffixes.

2. Borrowed affixes.

3. Conversion as a productive way of word building.

4. Categories of parts of speech influenced by conversion.

5. Composition .

1) translate the following words from Russian into English:

Авторское слово (букв. слово для случая), морфема, аффикс, продуктивность, заимствованный префикс, родной суффикс, корень, неделимый компонент, выведенный из значения, составляющие части, гибкая структура, однородные по структуре, наложение.

2. Control work (in writing) : 1) enumerate all productive and non-productive affixes (with examples); 2) write down native English affixes : 1^st variant – noun-forming and verb-forming suffixes; 2^nd variant – adjective-forming and adverb forming suffixes.

2. answer the question: Why should we distinguish frequency and productivity of affixes?

2. demonstrate with numerous examples which languages served as the main sources of borrowed affixes.

2. prove that conversion is a highly productive way of word-building in Modern English; give as many examples as possible.

2. enumerate (with examples) categories of parts of speech especially affected by conversion.

2. practical work : fulfill ex.8 p.100 ( explain the difference between the meanings of the following words produced from the same root by means of different affixes).

2. answer the question: What are the three aspects of composition ?

2. describe three types of compounds distinguished from the structural point of view.

Home work : 1) Read and learn p.104-120 of the textbook.

2) Answer the questions 5-8 p.120 of the textbook.

Практическое занятие №7 Word building (final lesson)

Plan.

1. Composition (continued).

2. Semantic aspect of compounds.

3. Semi-affixes.

4. Shortening.

5) Minor types of word-building:

1. Onomatopoea.

2. Reduplication.

3. Back-formation (reversion).

1. a) fill in the following scheme with the titles given for every group of compounds (put them in the empty boxes trying to identify their proper places):

Structural aspect

compounds

3. give the examples of above-mentioned types of compounds;

4. represent the definition of Composition (illustrate your answer with examples0.

5. practical work : fulfill ex.3 p.122 ( identify the neutral compounds in the word combinations and write them in three columns : A. Simple neutral compounds. B. Neutral derived compounds. C. Neutral contracted compounds.)

6. speak on the theory: How do you understand the linguistic term “semantic aspect of compound words”?

7. write the translation of the following linguistic terms:

составные части, значения составляющих частей, сдвиг значения, компонент, свободная форма, непосредственное соседство, наложение, приспособление, прозрачное значение, безвозвратно потерянное значение, выведение значения, закодированный смысл.

8. answer the following questions:

1. What are the three groups of compounds regarding their semantic aspects?

2. What is the difference between non-idiomatic compounds and idiomatic compounds? Give your own examples of each group.

9. explain the role of semi-affixes with examples;

10. give your own examples of shortening;

11. speak on the minor types of word-building :

1. onomatopoeia;

2. reduplication;

3. back-formation (reversion).

Home work: 1. Read and learn p.p. 225-236of the textbook ( Phraseology:Word groups with Transferred Meanings).

2. Answer the questions 1-7 p.p.236-237 of the textbook.

Практическое занятие №8

Phraseology: Word-Groups with Transferred Meaning.

Plan :

1. Definition of phraseological unit.

2. Difference between idioms and free word-groups.

3. Grammatical invariability of phraseological units.

4. Proverbs and their difference from phraseological units.

a) answer the following questions:

1. What linguists (in Russia and abroad) contributed most in English Phraseology?

2. Speak on the semantic classification of the idioms.

3. Describe the structural organization of the English idioms.

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