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English Lexicology

Examination Questions

1.Lexicology, its object and aims of research.

2.Lexical units: their properties and specific features.

3.The description of the lexicon in generative grammar.

4.The function of lexical units. Naming processes: causes, ways, types and results.

5.Motivated and non-motivated lexical units.

6.The word as the basic lexical unit.

7.Typologies of meaning. Lexical and grammatical meaning.

8.The essence of meaning. The referential approach.

9.The essence of meaning. The functional approach.

10.The behaviouristic and cognitive approaches to meaning.

11.Meaning as structure. Components of meaning.

12.Semantic derivation. Causes, types and functions.

13.Semantic ambiguity. Polysemy versus homonymy. Criteria and linguistic frequency.

14.Homonymy. Types of homonyms.

15.Patterned polysemy of lexical units in English.

16.Morphology as the study of language forms. Inflexional vs Derivational Morphology.

17. The speaker – hearer approach to the analysis of the word structure: morphemics vs word formation

18.The morpheme as the smallest meaningful unit. Principles and methods of morphemic analysis.

19.Difficulties of segmentation and classification of morphemes. Possible solutions.

20.Morphemic types of English words and their role in the lexicon and speech.

21..The derivational status of an affix. Problems and solutions. 22.Derivation on the native and neo-Latin bases in present-day English

23.Selectional rules and derivational affixal patterns. 24.Productivity and activity of affixal derivational patterns 25.Affixal word formation fields.

26. Correlative word formation fields and patterns in English and Byelorussian (Russian, German, French...) languages

27.Love – to love, to run - a run: A way of derivation or a functional shift?

28.The derivation device: zero-derivation, non-affixal word formation, conversion, morphological, syntactic, morphological-syntactic way of word formation.

29.The domain of zero derivation and its results: adjectivization, substantivization, occasional conversion, root formation.

30.Derivative relations in conversion and criteria of their directionality.

31.Semantic relations in conversion pairs and their propositional basis.

32.A compound word - a free word combination - a phraseological unit. Problems of boundaries and criteria.

33.Factors of government and binding words into phrases. Lexical and grammatical valency.

34.Motivation and variability of word combinations.

35.Free phrases versus phraseological units. Criteria and difficulties of differentiation.

36.Types of phraseological units.Classifications and their evaluation.

37.Linguistic laws of Ph Us formation.Activity of words and syntactic patterns.

38.Contrastive study of phraseology. Common sources as the foundation for equivalent phraseological units. Socio-cultural properties of phraseological units.

39.Lexicography. History of British and American lexicography .

40.Main types of English dictionaries.

41.Problems of lexicographic description .

42.Etymological survey of the English vocabulary .

43.Stylistic classification of the English vocabulary .

44.General properties and specific features of the English vocabulary .

45.National and regional varieties of English .

46.Minor ways and means of word formation in English.

47.Classifications of compound words in English.

48.Semantic and non-semantic classifications within the English vocabulary.

49.Synonymy. Antonymy.

50.Hyperonymic-hyponymic sets in English.