Topics for Presentations (Varieties of English)

#	Topic	Students
1.	English-Speaking World and Anglosphere
2.	British English. English Dialects and Accents. Map of English Dialects
3.	Hiberno-English. Welsh English. Scottish English
4.	Celtic Languages
5.	American English. General American. American Dialects. African-American Vernacular English
6.	Canadian English. Newfoundland English
7.	Indian English
8.	Australian English. General Australian
9.	New Zealand English
10.	South African English
11.	Englishes of Asia (Philippine, Hong Kong, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri-Lankan Englishes)
12.	English-based Pidgins and Creoles

Exam Questions

1. Lexicology. The object of lexicology. Word. Word-group. Vocabulary. Lexicon.

2. Sub-branches of lexicology. The connection of lexicology with different branches of knowledge.

3. Lexicography. History of British and American Lexicography.

4. Types of dictionaries. The organization of dictionary entries.

5. Word structure. Morphemes. Structural types of words. Types of word-segmetability.

6. Ways of enriching vocabulary.

7. Derivation. Suffixation. Prefixation. Classifications of affixes.

8. Composition. Types of Compounds.

9. Conversion. The historical development of the conversion. Semantic relations in conversion.

10. Shortening of words.

11. Secondary ways of word-building.

12. Collocability. Word-groups. Motivation in word-groups.

13. Phraseological units (types and origin of phraseological units, types of phraseological transference).

14. Proverbs, sayings and quotations.

15. Word meaning. Different approaches to definitions of meaning.

16. Types of meaning. Aspects of lexical meaning.

17. Causes and Types of Semantic Change.

18. Basic types of semantic relations: proximity, equivalence, inclusion and opposition. Hyperonyms and hyponyms. Meronymy and holonymy. Paronymy.

19. Homonymy. Polysemy.

20. Lexical sets. Lexico-semantic group. Semantic fields. Conceptual fields. Field theory.

21. Synonyms. Antonyms.

22. Neologisms. Archaisms. Historisms.

23. Etymological survey of English vocabulary.

24. Classification of borrowings. Borrowings from different languages. Etymological doublets. International words.

25. Assimilation of borrowings.

26. Accent. Dialect. Language variant. Received pronunciation. Standard English.

27. American and Canadian variants of English. Main lexical features.

28. Australian and New Zealand English. Main lexical features.

29. Language variant. Englishes of Asia.

30. Standard variety. Sociolect. Pidgin. Lingua franca. Creole.