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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
Recommended Reading
Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка: Учеб. пособие / На англ. яз. М., 1999.
Арнольд И.В. Лексикология современного английского языка: Учебник для ин-тов и фак. иностр. яз. / На англ. яз. М., 1986.
Ахманова О.С. Словарь лингвистических терминов. М., 1969.
Гинзбург Р.З., Хидекель С.С., Князева Г.Ю. и др. Лексикология английского языка: Учебник для ин-тов и фак. иностр. яз. / На англ. яз. М., 1979.
Конецкая В.П. Аксиомы, закономерности и гипотезы в лексикологии // Вопросы языкознания, 1998. №2.
Кубрякова Е.С., Демьянков В.З., Панкрац Ю.Г., Лузина Л.Г. Краткий словарь когнитивных терминов. М., 1996.
Лещева л.м. Слова в английском языке: курс лексикологии современного английского языка: Учебник / На англ. яз. Мн., 2001.
Лингвистический энциклопедический словарь / Гл. ред. В.Н.Ярцева. М., 1990.
Смирницкий А.И. Лексикология английского языка. М., 1956.
Харитончик З.А. Лексикология английского языка: Учеб. пособие. Мн., 1992.
Crystal D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Printed in Italy, 1995. P. 119–123.
Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. Harlow, 1992.
McArthur T. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford, 1992.
McArthur T. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Abridged edition. Oxford, 1996.
Recommended Dictionaries
Новый Большой англо-русский словарь. В 3-х т. / Ю.Д. Апресян, Э.М. Медникова, А.В. Петрова и др. Под общим рук. Ю.Д. Апресяна. М., 1997.
Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary. London, 1995.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary. Bombay, 1987.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Harlow, 1995.
The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English. A.S.Hornby / Ed. J. Crowther. Oxford, 1995.
ETYMOLOGICAL characteristics
OF THE ENGLISH lexicon
Topics for Discussion
The sources of the English lexicon.
General composition of the word stock.
Words of native origin.
Borrowing. Assimilation of borrowings.
Linguistic effects of borrowing.
Key Terms
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borrowing calque cognates common Germanic words etymology folk etymology etymological doublets (triplets) etymological fallacy |
etymon Indo-European roots international words loan translation loanword semantic loan word origin |
Tasks and Exercises
Trace the etymology and comment on the etymological meaning of the following words:
daisy, girl, goodbye, school, silly, window.
State the languages from which the following words are borrowed:
addendum, architect, area, canoe, cheese, intelligent, kindergarten, majesty, nation, paper, place, rouble, saga, soprano, steppe, tomato, umbrella, waltz.
3. Make sure you know the following abbreviations used in the Concise Oxford Dictionary (COD):
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Brit./ish |
Gmc/Germanic |
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Celt./ic |
Goth./ic |
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cf./compare |
Heb./rew |
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cogn./ate |
It./Italian |
|
com./mon |
L/Latin |
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Da./nish |
LL/Late Latin |
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Du./tch |
Norm./an |
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E/English |
OE/Old English |
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F/French |
OF/Old French |
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f /rom |
ON/Old Norse |
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Fr./ench |
OS/Old Saxon |
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G/German |
Rom./Roman; Romanic |
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Gk/Greek |
Teut./onic |
Note: for the complete list of abbreviations see the Concise Oxford Dictionary.