- •6. Types of meaning
- •9) Polysemy as a language universal viewed synchronically.
- •10) Polysemy as a language universal viewed diachronically.
- •12. Semantic fields and lexico-semantic groups in the English language
- •13. Synonyms as a language universal. Classification of synonyms viewed synchronically.
- •15. Antonyms as a language universal. Types of antonyms in Ukr. And Eng. Languages.
- •16. Set-phrases and free-phrases in the English and Ukrainian languages: the problem of differentiation.
- •17. Valency. Grammatical and lexical valency.
- •23 Word formation and other ways of nomination in Modern English and Ukrainian.
- •Ways of nomination:
- •24 Morphemic analysis and its basic units.
- •25 Derivational analysis and its basic units.
- •26. Morphological way of word-formation in the English and Ukrainian languages: suffixation
- •27. Morphological way of word-formation in the English and Ukrainian languages: prefixation
- •28. Conversion as a purely English way of word-formation
- •29.Syntactic way of word-formation in the English and Ukrainian languages: compounding.
- •30. Compounds and free word-groups in the English and Ukrainian languages
- •31. Classification of compounds in the English and Ukrainian languages
- •35. Words of native origin in English. Semantic and stylistic characteristics of native words. Word-forming ability of native words.
- •36. Etymological survey of the English language: sources and types of borrowings. (По типам чет нихера не нашел).
- •37. Ways of borrowing and criteria of borrowings.
- •38 Assimilation of borrowings
- •40 Norman-French Borrowings
- •41 Ways of replenishment. Neologisms
- •42.Territorial variants of the English language
23 Word formation and other ways of nomination in Modern English and Ukrainian.
Language is a means of forming and storing ideas as re-flections of reality and exchanging them in the process of human intercourse.
The communicative function is the main function of the language.
The communicative function is closely connected with the other , nominative function.
Nominative function is the function of giving names to things, objects, it is called nomination.
Ways of nomination:
W o r d - F o r m a t i o n is the system of derivative types of words
and the process of creating new words from the material available in the
language after certain structural and semantic formulas and patterns.
For instance, the noun driver is formed after the pattern v+-er, i.e. a verbal
stem +-the noun-forming suffix -er. The meaning of the derived noun
driver is related to the meaning of the stem drive- ‘to direct the course of
a vehicle’ and the suffix -er meaning ‘an active agent’:
Likewise compounds resulting from two or more stems joined together to form a new
word are also built on quite definite structural and semantic patterns and
formulas, for instance adjectives of the snow-white type are built according
to the formula п+а,
the following two types of word-formation may be distinguished, word- derivation
and word-composition (or compounding)
Words created by word-derivation have in terms of word-formation analysis only one derivational base and one derivational affix, e.g. cleanness (from clean
The basic ways of forming words is w o r d - d e r i v a t i о n , for instance, are a ff i x a t i o n and c o n v e r s i o n
24 Morphemic analysis and its basic units.
There are two levels of morphological analysis: morphemic and derivational.
Morphemic analysis is the segmentation of a word into morphemes, their number and types.
e.g. en/courage – en/courage/ment (2 morphemes – 3 morphemes)
The aim of morpheme analysis is segmentation of a word into morphemes, the defining of the number and type of these morphemes.
The basis unit of the morphemic analysis is the morpheme.
Morpheme is the smallest indivisible two-facet language unit which means an association of a certain meaning with a certain sound-form.
Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of the language but its meaning is generalized: rewrite (re - denotes reversal of an action)
The procedure of morphemic analysis generally employed for the purposes of segmenting words into the constituent morphemes is the method of I m m e d i a t e and U l t i -
m a t e C o n s t i t u e n t s .
This method deals with analysis of word-structure on the morphemic level.
It consists of breaking a word into the constituent morphemes – Immediate (ICs) and Ultimate Constituents (UCs).
We cut out the morpheme without which the word exists.
Each IC at the next stage of analysis is
in turn broken into two smaller meaningful elements. The analysis is completed
when we arrive at constituents incapable of further division, i.e.
morphemes.
Ultimate constituent is part of a word which can not be futher divided.
Immediate Constituent is part of the word which can be further divided.
The procedure of segmenting a word into its Ultimate Constituent
morphemes, may be conveniently presented with the help of a box-like
diagram.
Classification of morphemes
Morphemes may be classified:
a) from the
semantic point of view,
b) from the structural point of
view.
a) Semantically morphemes fall into two classes: r o o t -
m o r p h e m e s and n o n - r o o t or a f f i x a t i o n a l m o r -
p h e m e s . Roots and affixes make two distinct classes of morphemes
due to the different roles they play in word-structure
b) Structurally morphemes fall into three types: f r e e morp
h e m e s , b o u n d m o r p h e m e s , s e m i - f r e e ( s e m i -
b o u n d ) m o r p h e m e s .
A f r e e m o r p h e m e is defined as one that coincides with the
stem 2 or a word-form. A great many root-morphemes are free morphemes,
for example, the root-morpheme friend — of the noun friendship is naturally
qualified as a free morpheme because it coincides with one of the
forms of the noun friend.
A b o u n d m o r p h e m e occurs only as a constituent part of a
word. Affixes are, naturally, bound morphemes, for they always make part
of a word, e.g. the suffixes -ness, -ship, -ise (-ize), etc., the prefixes un-,
Semi-bound ( s e m i - f r e e ) m o r p h e m e s 1 are morphemes that
can function in a morphemic sequence both as an affix and as a free morpheme.
For example, the morpheme well and half on the one hand occur
as free morphemes that coincide with the stem and the word-form in utterances
like sleep well, half an hour,” on the other hand they occur as
bound morphemes in words like well-known, half-eaten, half-done.
Result of morphemic analysis : monomorphic and polymorphic words