
- •Нижегородский государственный лингвистический университет им. Н. А. Добролюбова
- •Contents
- •Lexicology as a branch of Linguistics
- •Lexicography
- •The Oxford English Dictionary and Other Historical Dictionaries
- •Antonymic Dictionaries
- •Orthographic Dictionaries
- •The Problem of Definitions
- •A Survey of Current Works on English and American Lexicography in This Country
- •Etymology
- •Etymological Doublets
- •International Words
- •A Contribution of Borrowed Elements into English
- •Celtic Elements in English
- •Latin Borrowings in English
- •The Development of Latin English
- •Greek Element in English
- •Scandinavian Element
- •A Selection of Scandinavian Loanwords in English
- •The Relation of Borrowed and Native Words
- •French Element
- •Army and Navy
- •Fashions, Meals, and Social Life
- •Anglo-Norman and Central French
- •The Contribution to the English Vocabulary from Italian
- •Spanish Element in the English Vocabulary
- •Arabic Words in English
- •German Borrowings in English
- •Russian Borrowings
- •Borrowings from Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Other Languages
- •Hebrew Words in English
- •International Words
- •Folk Etymology
- •Morphological structure of english words
- •Structural Types of English Words
- •Derivational and Functional Affixes
- •Word-building in English
- •The Historical Development of Compounds
- •Classification of Compounds
- •Specific Features of English Compounds
- •Semantic Relationships in Converted Pairs
- •Back-Formation or Reversion
- •Shortening (Clipping or Curtailment)
- •Graphical Abbreviations. Acronyms
- •Blending
- •Onomatopoeia
- •Sound Interchange
- •Distinctive Stress
- •Semasiology
- •Topological Kinds of Polysemy Fellow
- •SynonyMs
- •Sources of Synonyms
- •AntonyMs
- •Homonyms
- •The Origin of Homonyms
- •Polysemy and Homonymy
- •Phraseology
- •Native phraseological units are connected with English customs, traditions, national realia, historical facts:
- •Phraseological Units connected with English realia:
- •Phraseological units connected with the names and nicknames of English kings, queens, scholars, eminent writers, public leaders, etc.
- •Phraseological units connected with historic facts:
- •Shakespearisms constitute more than 100 phraseological units in English:
- •Such great English writers as Jeoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Charles Dickens and Walter Scott contributed greatly to the stock of phraseologisms:
- •Bibleisms represent borrowings which are fully assimilated:
- •Phraseological Borrowings:
- •Phraseological units belonging to ae are the so-called inner borrowings:
- •Similarity and Difference between a Set-Expression and a Word
- •Replenishment of the vocabulary
- •Social Factors and Neologisms
- •Obsolete Words
- •American english
- •The Main Difference between be and ae.
- •British and American Correspondences
- •American School Vocabulary
- •Марина Серафимовна Ретунская Основы Английской лексикологии курс лекций
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Нижегородский государственный лингвистический университет им. Н. А. Добролюбова
М.С. Ретунская
Основы Английской лексикологии
курс лекций
Нижний Новгород 2006
Печатается по решению редакционно-издательского совета ГОУ НГЛУ им. Н.А. Добролюбова.
Специальность: Теория и методика преподавания иностранных языков и культур
Дисциплина: Лексикология английского языка
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Ретунская М.С. Основы английской лексикологии: Курс лекций. –
Н. Новгород: НГЛУ им. Н.А. Добролюбова, 2006 – 175 с.
Курс лекций по английской лексикологии посвящен слову как основной единице языка. Здесь нашли отражение базовые разделы этой отрасли лингвистики: этимология, структура слова, словообразование, лексикография. Английская лексика рассматривается как непрерывно развивающаяся система. «Основы английской лексикологии» предназначены для студентов и аспирантов институтов и факультетов иностранных языков.
Рецензент Т.В. Сухарева, канд. филол. наук., доцент
© Издательство ГОУ НГЛУ им. Н.А. Добролюбова, 2006
Contents
Lexicology as a branch of linguistics …………………………………… |
5 |
Lexicography …………………………………………………………….. |
8 |
Historical outline ……………………………………………….. |
8 |
The typology of dictionaries …………………………………… |
14 |
Classification of dictionaries according to their contents ………. |
15 |
Theoretical problems of lexicography ………………………….. |
19 |
Etymology ………………………………………………………………... |
25 |
Historical outline ……………………………………………….. |
25 |
Native words in English, their role and classification ………….. |
26 |
Borrowed words in English, their assimilation …………………. |
29 |
A survey of borrowings in English against historical background |
32 |
Morphological structure of English words …………………………….. |
93 |
Word-building in English ……………………………………………….. |
98 |
Affixation ……………………………………………………….. |
98 |
Composition …………………………………………………….. |
101 |
Conversion ……………………………………………………… |
107 |
Minor ways of word-building …………………………………... |
110 |
Semasiology ………………………………………………………………. |
117 |
Word-meaning, its structure ……………………………………. |
117 |
Plurality of meaning (polysemy) ……………………………….. |
119 |
Change of meaning ……………………………………………... |
123 |
Transfer of meaning …………………………………………….. |
126 |
Semantic groupings in English vocabulary …………………….. |
128 |
Synonyms …………………………………………………… |
128 |
Antonyms ……………………………………………………. |
134 |
Homonyms ………………………………………………….. |
136 |
Phraseology ………………………………………………………………. |
141 |
The origin of phraseological units ……………………………… |
142 |
Classification of phraseological units …………………………... |
148 |
Proverbs, Sayings, Familiar Quotations, Cliches ……………….. |
152 |
Replenishment of the vocabulary ………………………………………. |
154 |
Neologisms …..…………………………………………………. |
154 |
Occasional words ……………………………………………….. |
159 |
Obsolete words …………………………………………………………... |
161 |
American English ………………………………………………………... |
164 |