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- •Contents
- •Introduction ............................................................... 6
- •Preface
- •Questions
- •Acknowledgements
- •Introduction
- •Lectures and Seminars
- •Seminar outlines Lexical units Topics for Discussion
- •Tasks and Exercises
- •3. Read the excerpt and answer the questions.
- •Recommended Reading
- •Recommended Dictionaries
- •4. Match the etymological doublets:
- •5. Give adjectives of Latin origin to the following nouns:
- •Questions
- •Recommended Reading
- •Recommended Dictionaries
- •Word meaning Topics for Discussion
- •Tasks and Exercises
- •In what component of meaning do these words differ?
- •Polysemy
- •Homonymy
- •Of english words
- •Recommended Reading
- •Recommended Dictionaries
- •Phraseological units Topics for Discussion
- •Tasks and Exercises
- •3. Compare the inner form of the correlative units and focus on the degree of their semantic equivalence:
- •4. Explain the meanings of the following word-combinations:
- •Recommended Reading
- •Recommended Dictionaries
- •Stylistic and social stratification of the english lexicon Topics for Discussion
- •Recommended Reading
- •Гальперин и.Р. Стилистика английского языка: Учебник. М., 1977.
- •Crystal d. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Printed in Italy, 1995.
- •Recommended Dictionaries
- •Regional varieties of the english language: Lexical differences Topics for Discussion
- •Tasks and Exercises
- •1. Read the excerpt and dwell on the influence the two varieties (British and American) have had on each other. American and british english
- •2. Give the American spelling of the following words and describe the main patterns of spelling differences between the two variants (use dictionaries):
- •5. Match the words with the same denotational meaning. State which of the words and word-combinations given below are used in British English /American English:
- •Recommended Reading
- •Ways of enriching and expanding the English lexicon Topics for Discussion
- •Key Terms
- •5. Make up a list of productive prefixes and suffixes with examples.
- •Tasks and Exercises
- •1. Pay attention to some widely used abbreviations:
- •Questions
- •Recommended Reading
- •Recommended Dictionaries
- •Recommended Reading Manuals of Lexicology
- •Encyclopedias of Language and Dictionaries of Linguistic Terms
- •Ministry of education of the republic of belarus
Lectures and Seminars
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Topics |
Lec- tures (hours) |
Semi-nars (hours) |
To- tal |
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1 |
Lexicology as a branch of linguistics. Lexical units. |
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1 |
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2 |
General characteristics of the English lexicon. |
1 |
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2 |
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3 |
Etymological characteristics of the English lexicon. |
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1 |
1 |
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4 |
Word meaning. Types of meaning. Semantic change in English. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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5 |
Polysemy and homonymy in English. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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6 |
Types of semantic relations in the lexicon. Semantic and non-semantic classifications of English words. |
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2
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2
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7 |
The structure of English words. Principles of morphemic analysis. Morphemic types of words in English. Principles and basic notions of derivational analysis. Derivational types of words in English. |
2 |
2 |
4 |
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8 9 10 11 12 |
English word-formation. Affixation. Conversion. Compounding. Abbreviation. Other ways of word creation. |
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1 1 1 1 |
4
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13 |
Phraseological units. |
2 |
2 |
4 |
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14 |
The stylistic and social stratification of the English lexicon. |
1 |
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1 |
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15 |
Regional varieties of the English language: Lexical differences. |
1 |
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1 |
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16 |
Ways of enriching and expanding the English lexicon. |
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2 |
2 |
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17 |
British and American lexicography. |
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2 |
2 |
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10 |
20 |
30 |
Seminar outlines Lexical units Topics for Discussion
Lexicology as a branch of linguistics.
Lexicology and its links with other branches of linguistics. The theoretical and practical value of lexicology.
Lexical naming. Types of lexical naming. (General overview.)
The word as the basic lexical unit. The problem of the word in English. Word variants.
The concept of lexeme.
The size of the English lexicon.
The size of a person’s lexicon.
Key Terms
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lexeme lexical item/unit lexical system lexicalization lexicology cognitive lexicology contrastive lexicology descriptive lexicology diachronic/historical lexicology general lexicology special lexicology synchronic lexicology lexicon lexis |
mental lexicon morpheme derivational morpheme naming lexical naming phraseological unit ready-made unit set expression/phrase two-faceted unit vocabulary word word-group word stock word variants |
Tasks and Exercises
What counts as a word? Define the status of the given lexical items and comment on the types of naming. Consult the recommended dictionaries:
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ad Adam’s apple bike blue(-)stocking boarding school break-down demo extra- flower pot forget-me-not heart attack hot dog |
hot line lily of the valley mini mother-in-law pram runaway second-rate town hall UNESCO VIP Whitehall White House |
Give spelling variants of the same words (morphological variants, regional variants).