- •Т. А. Ненашева
- •Seminars in english lexicology
- •Учебно-методическое пособие
- •Нижний Новгород
- •Рецензент: к.Ф.Н., доц. Н.И.Смирнова
- •Т. А. Ненашева
- •Seminars in english lexicology
- •Учебно-методическое пособие
- •Семинар 1
- •Etymological Structure of the English Vocabulary
- •I. Speak on the following topics.
- •II. Do the following assignments.
- •Seminar 2 Regional Varieties of English
- •I. Speak on the following topics.
- •II. Do the following assignments.
- •In the following sentences find the examples of Americanisms. State whether they belong to :
- •Seminar 3 Word Formation
- •I. Speak on the following topics.
- •II. Do the following assignments.
- •1.Affixation
- •Humanity – humanism
- •2.Compounding
- •3. Conversion
- •4. Shortening (clipping)
- •5. Sound-Imitation (Onomatopoeia)
- •6. Blending
- •7. Stress interchange
- •Seminar 4 Polysemy and Homonymy
- •Speak on the following topics.
- •II. Do the following assignments.
- •1)Find the homonyms proper to the following words and give their Russian equivalents.
- •2)Find the homophones to the following words and translate them into Russian.
- •3)Find the homographs to the following words and translate both.
- •Seminar 5 Synonyms and Antonyms. Archaisms and Neologisms
- •Speak on the following topics.
- •II. Do the following assignments. Synonyms and Antonyms
- •Archaisms and Neologisms.
- •Appendix lexicological analysis of the text
- •I. Etymology
- •II. Morphological structure of words
- •III. Word building
- •IV. Semasiology
- •Sample analysis of the text the longest journey
- •Lexicological analysis of the text
- •Etymological glossary* native words
- •Of the renaissance period
- •Norman-french borrowings
- •Art and Architecture
- •Fashion, Meals, Social Life, Every Day Words
- •Later french (parisian) borrowings Regime, routine, police, machine, ballet, matinee, scene, technique, bourgeois. Spanish borrowings
- •Italian borrowings
- •Arabic borrowings
- •German borrowings
- •Semantic development of words Arrive – Md e “to come by water” Bachelor – an unmarried man; l. Baccalaria – a heard of cows; l. Baccalarius – a youth who attended the cows.
- •Etymological doublets
- •Etymological triplets
- •American and british english
- •Contents
- •References
- •Ненашева Татьяна Александровна
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Т. А. Ненашева
Seminars in english lexicology
Учебно-методическое пособие
Нижний Новгород
2010 г.
ББК 81.2 Англ 923
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Ненашева, Т.А. Семинары по английской лексикологии (Seminars in English Lexicology): Учебно-методическое пособие для слушателей языкового центра НФ ГУ-ВШЭ - Нижний Новгород: НФ ГУ- ВШЭ, 2010. - 42 с.
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Рецензент: к.Ф.Н., доц. Н.И.Смирнова
© Ненашева Татьяна Александровна, 2010
© Нижегородский филиал ГУ ВШЭ, 2010
Т. А. Ненашева
Seminars in english lexicology
Учебно-методическое пособие
Семинар 1
Etymological Structure of the English Vocabulary
I. Speak on the following topics.
Native words, their classification and characteristics.
Latin borrowings in English.
French borrowings and their influence on the English vocabulary.
Celtic and Scandinavian borrowings.
Italian, German, Spanish and minor borrowings.
Assimilation of borrowings and types of assimilation.
II. Do the following assignments.
Use the Etymological Glossary on p. 25.
Assignment 1.
Subdivide the following native words into two groups according to their native element (words of common Indo-European word-stock and words of common Germanic word stock).
Apple, always, ask, above, any, be, blood, boat, bread, foot, keep, child, know, kind, can, drink, eat, ear, do, queen, eight, old, even, father, full, fish, young, go, girl, glad, green, he, heart, lady, hundred, house, I, let, like, lip, love, man, milk, mother, night, red, woman, widow.
Assignment 2.
Explain the etymology of the following words. Write them out in three columns according to the degree of assimilation.
Pen, ballet, ad hoc, monk, pupil, mulatto, table, mutton, war, cycle, esthete, taiga, bourgeoisie, mosquito, chocolate, rucksack, husband, kindergarten, pioneer, coup d’etat, police, phenomenon, data, cup, cordial, admire, skirt, sari, street, vis-à-vis, psychology, egg, pneumonia, sauerkraut, sky, chauffeur, architect, cherry, archaic, chronology, pneumatics, communiqué, café, portafogli, stiletto, eau-de-Cologne, garage, wine, samovar, tête-à-tête, Luftwaffe, paper, schnitzel.
Assignment 3.
Give etymological doublets to the following words.
Major, story, senior, catch, shade, fence, skirt, cavalry, hospital, canal, corps, jail.
Assignment 6.
Comment on the type of the following borrowings; subdivide them into four groups according to the borrowed aspect.
Blue blood, pioneer, student, swan-song, sputnik, goddess, beautiful, engineer, the fifth column, bank, uncomfortable, masterpiece, Sunday, Autobahn, unmistakable, superman.
Assignment 7.
Comment on the etymology of the following international words.
Moment, robot, glasnost, meeting, antenna, antibiotics, snob, democrat, villa,
football, bandit, domino, time-out.
Assignment 8.
State the origin of the following words.
Prison, skipper, junta, just, yacht, ranch, tailor, embargo, take, lieutenant, guess, leg, joy, waltz, tomato, corridor, skin, Mafia, concert, pencil, money.