- •1.Give the Classification of morphemic segmentability.
- •2.Analyze the Lexical layers of the English Vocabulary.
- •3.Characterize the types of Meaning.
- •4. Define the basic tasks of Lexicology.
- •5.Describe the process of neologisms formation.
- •6. Point out the structure of compound words
- •7. Write the morphemic analysis aims
- •8. Describe the English word stock
- •9. Write a description of functional words
- •10. Define the descriptive lexicology
- •11. Describe the historical lexicology.
- •12. Write peculiarities of Conversion and its types
- •13. Give general notion of the lexicography
- •14. Point out classification of the phraseologisms
- •15. Point out the peculiarities of metaphors and metonyms
6. Point out the structure of compound words
Compounding is the process of making new words by combining several stems. This is the most productive of word-formation. Compounding or word-compositions is one of the productive types of word-formation in Modern English. Composition like all other ways of deriving words has its own peculiarities as to the means used, the nature of bases and their distribution, as to the range of application, the scope of semantic classes and the factors conducive to productivity. There are tree aspects of Compounding:
Structural aspect. Structurally we can deal with tree types of compounds:
1. Neutral – there are no linking elements.
· Simple: sunflower, bedroom, blackmail, tallboy, blackbird.
· Derived: two stems +affix: early-riser, music-lover, honey-mooner.
· Contracted: there is an element is a contraction: TV-set, H-bag, V-day.
2. Morphological – are fewer in number, non-productive; there is a linking element, usually “o”: anglosaxon, spokesman, handiwork, craftsmanship.
3. Syntactic – very English type, formed of segments of speech and preserve in their structure traces of syntagmatic relations typical of speech: good-for-nothing, sit-at-home, Jack-of-all-trades, breakfast-in-the-bedder, lily-of-the-valley.
Semantic aspect.Three major groups of compounds:
1. Transparant/Non-idiomatic: meaning can be deduced from the meaning of two components: classroom, dancing hall, sleeping car. Meaning is the sum of compounds.
2. Semi-transparant: one of the components shifts its meaning: chatterbox, lady-killer, pickpocket, good-for-nothing.
3. Enigmas: impossible to deduce meaning of compound from the meaning of components: ladybird, wallflower, horse marine, tallboy, blue stocking.
7. Write the morphemic analysis aims
There are two levels of approach to the study of word- structure: the level of morphemic analysis and the level of derivational or word-formation analysis.
Morphemic analysis deals with segmentable words. Its procedure flows to split a word into its constituent morphemes, and helps to determine their number and type. It's called the method of immediate and ultimate constituents. This method is based on the binary principle which allows to break morphemic structure of a word into 2 components at each stage. The analysis is completed when we arrive at constituents unable of any further division.
The aim of the analysis is to define the number and the type of morphemes.
The morphemic analysis aims at splitting a segmentable word into its constituent morphemes — the basic units at this level of word-structure analysis — and at determining their number and types. The degree of morphemic segmentability is not the same for different words.
As we break the word we obtain at any level only 2 immediate constituents, one of which is the stem of the given word. The morphemic analysis may be based either on the identification of affixational morphemes within a set of words, or root morphemes.