Учебное пособие, 2010 год, Ставропольский Государственный
Университет
Lexicology and its types
Two approaches to language study
Lexicology and its connection with other branches of linguistics
Word as the basic unit of the language
Criteria of defining a word
Review of different definitions of the word
The origin of English words
Native words and borrowed words
Assimilation of borrowed (loan) words
Etymological doublets
Morphemes. Classification of morphemes
Morphemic types of words
Procedure of morphemic analysis: methods and principles
The immediate constituents (IC) analysis
Derivative structure
Derivational bases
Derivational affixes
Derivational pattes
Historical changeability of word-structure
Methods of vocabulary extension
Principal ways of word-formation: affixation in English, classification of suffixes, classification of prefixes, conversion, word- composition
Minor ways of word-formation: shortening, blending, acronymy, sound-interchange, sound imitation, reduplication , back-formation, distinctive stress.
Semasiology as a study of meaning
Meaning in the referential approach
Meaning in the functional approach
Types of meaning
Aspects of lexical meaning
Causes, nature, and results of the semantic change
Lexical meaning
Differential meaning
Distributional meaning
Part-of-speech meaning
Word-meaning and motivation:
Phonetical motivation
Morphological motivation
Semantic motivation
Polysemy
Diachronic and synchronic approaches to polysemy
Polysemy and context. Types of context
Homonymy. Classification of homonyms
Intralinguistic relations of words
Types of semantic relations of words
Semantic classification of words:
Synonymy. Classification of synonyms
Lexical and terminological sets, lexico-semantic groups and semantic fields
Antonymy. Classification of antonyms
Different types of word-combinations
Different classifications of phraseological units
Proverbs, sayings, familiar quotations and clichés
Common literary, neutral and common colloquial vocabulary
Special literary vocabulary
Special colloquial vocabulary
British English and American English as the main regional variants of the English language
Lexical peculiarities of the British and American English
Morphological peculiarities of American words
Dialect, accent, idiolect
Dialects in the UK
Dialects in the USA
The history of English lexicography
Classification of dictionaries
The Basic Problems of Dictionary-Compiling
Lexicology and its types
Two approaches to language study
Lexicology and its connection with other branches of linguistics
Word as the basic unit of the language
Criteria of defining a word
Review of different definitions of the word
The origin of English words
Native words and borrowed words
Assimilation of borrowed (loan) words
Etymological doublets
Morphemes. Classification of morphemes
Morphemic types of words
Procedure of morphemic analysis: methods and principles
The immediate constituents (IC) analysis
Derivative structure
Derivational bases
Derivational affixes
Derivational pattes
Historical changeability of word-structure
Methods of vocabulary extension
Principal ways of word-formation: affixation in English, classification of suffixes, classification of prefixes, conversion, word- composition
Minor ways of word-formation: shortening, blending, acronymy, sound-interchange, sound imitation, reduplication , back-formation, distinctive stress.
Semasiology as a study of meaning
Meaning in the referential approach
Meaning in the functional approach
Types of meaning
Aspects of lexical meaning
Causes, nature, and results of the semantic change
Lexical meaning
Differential meaning
Distributional meaning
Part-of-speech meaning
Word-meaning and motivation:
Phonetical motivation
Morphological motivation
Semantic motivation
Polysemy
Diachronic and synchronic approaches to polysemy
Polysemy and context. Types of context
Homonymy. Classification of homonyms
Intralinguistic relations of words
Types of semantic relations of words
Semantic classification of words:
Synonymy. Classification of synonyms
Lexical and terminological sets, lexico-semantic groups and semantic fields
Antonymy. Classification of antonyms
Different types of word-combinations
Different classifications of phraseological units
Proverbs, sayings, familiar quotations and clichés
Common literary, neutral and common colloquial vocabulary
Special literary vocabulary
Special colloquial vocabulary
British English and American English as the main regional variants of the English language
Lexical peculiarities of the British and American English
Morphological peculiarities of American words
Dialect, accent, idiolect
Dialects in the UK
Dialects in the USA
The history of English lexicography
Classification of dictionaries
The Basic Problems of Dictionary-Compiling