Recommended Reading Obligatory:

1. Arnold I.V. The English Word/ И.В. Арнольд. Лексикология современного английского языка. Изд. 3-е – М.: Высшая школа, 1986. – С .153–164.

2. Ginzburg R.S., Khidekel S.S., Knyazeva G.Y., Sankin A.A. A Course in Modern English Lexicology – M.: Higher School Publishing House, 1979. – P. 127–140.

3. Смирницкий А.И.. Лексикология английского языка. – М.: Изд-во литературы на иностр. языках, 1959. – С. 71–83, 99–100.

4. Харитончик З.А. Лексикология английского языка. – Минск: Вышэйшая школа, 1992. – С. 166–176.

5.2 English Phraseology

Key words: stability vs changeability, idiomaticity vs motivation, word equivalence, set expressions, idioms, phraseological unit (PhU), phraseological fusions, phraseological unities, phraseological collocations; traditional collocations, idioms proper, ready made utterances; free(variable) context combinations – non-variable (stable) context combinations, phrasemes vs idioms. Look up these terms in the glossary or in the sources indicated in the bibliography to the glossary. Compare the definitions given in English and in Russian.

Problems for Discussion

1. Motivation and variability of word combinations.

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

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

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

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

Questions and Tasks

1. Analyze the following word combinations and comment on their meaning and variability of the components: settle the future of the country, shake hands on(over) the bargain, sink or swim, speak of the devil and he is sure to appear, wait for the postman, for a friend, for the train, for instructions.

2. Classify the following phraseological units using

1. the semantic criterion,

2. the contextual criterion,

3. the functional criterion

drenched to the bone, a break in the clouds, creditors have better memories than debtors, good egg, put all one’s eggs in one basket, separate the husk from the grain, Attic salt, to lick the boots, break bread with smb, shoot the bull.

Recommended Reading Obligatory:

1. Arnold I.V. The English Word/ И.В. Арнольд. Лексикология современного английского языка. Изд. 3-е – М.: Высшая школа, 1986. – С .153–164.

2. Ginzburg R.S., Khidekel S.S., Knyazeva G.Y., Sankin A.A. A Course in Modern English Lexicology – M.: Higher School Publishing House, 1979. – P. 127–140.

3. Смирницкий А.И.. Лексикология английского языка. – М.: Изд-во литературы на иностр. языках, 1959. – С. 71 – 83, 99–100.

4. Харитончик З.А. Лексикология английского языка. – Минск: Вышэйшая школа, 1992. – С. 166–176.

Topic 6 The Structure of the English Lexicon

Key words: formal classifications, semantic classification of lexicon, seme, semantic feature (atomic predicate), semantic marker, semantic distinguisher, semantic (lexical) field, lexico-semantic group(LSG), thematic group, lexical paradigm, semantic taxonomy, synonym, antonym, hyponym, hyperonym, meronym, cycle, chain, frame. Look up these terms in the glossary or in the sources indicated in the bibliography to the glossary. Compare the definitions given in English and in Russian.