Questions to LECTURES

lexicology.
What are the main objects of lexicological studies?
What two approaches

can we apply to studying of linguistic phenomena?
Why isn’t it correct to study words only from synchronic point of view? (beggar)
What is vocabulary?
What are lexical layers?
Why is lexicology closely connected with sociolinguistics?

Lecture 1

morpheme?
What are LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS? What type of lexicology studies them?
What

is the difference between DESCRIPTIVE and SPECIAL lexicology?
What is another name for HISTORICAL lexicology?
Give a definition of sociolinguistics.

Lecture 2

semasiology the same notion as semantics or semiotics?
What does semiotics

study?
What are the three branches of semiotics?
What two approaches to meaning do we know?
What are the two main types of meaning?
What are the two main components of the lexical meaning?

Lecture 3

is meaning according to them?
What is semantic triangle?
Which scholars introduced

this notion?
What is the key innovation of the book “Meaning of meaning”?
What is the Bloomfieldian approach to meaning?
Give a definition of the MORPHEME?
How do morphemes and words differ?
In which way are they similar?

Lecture 4

example of connotational meaning of a morpheme?
Which morphemes possess denotational

meaning?
What other specific types of meaning do morpheme possess?

belong to? In what book is it presented?
How are the

changes classified from the point of view of time and duration?
What are the main types of change in denotational meaning?
What are the main types of change in connotational meaning?
What kind of change is metaphor based on?
What kind of change is metonymy based on?

Lecture 5

kind of contiguity is metonymy based on?
What is elevation of

meaning? (other terms)
What is degeneration of meaning? (other terms)
Give examples of pejoration of meaning?
Give examples of amelioration of meaning?

is of primary importance for studying polysemy?
What kind of meaning

do polysemantic words possess?
What are the processes of the semantic development of a word? What is the main difference between them?

Lectures 6-7

in homonyms?
How is the identical form of homonyms explained?
What is

the difference between full and partial homonyms?
How can homonyms be classified according to the type of meaning?
Give the classification of homonyms according to Smirnitskiy.
What are homographs? Provide examples.
What are homophones? Provide examples.
What are the sources of homonymy?

found?
Give the examples of synonyms with different denotational and connotational

components.
What kind of synonyms do we differentiate between?
What is antonymy?
What kind of antonyms do you know?

Lecture 8

according to their structure?
Give a definition of morphemiс analysis?
What are

the types of morphemic segmentability?
How do we classify morphemes from the structural point of view?
What are the classes of morphemes from the semantic point of view?
Give a definition of word-formation.
What are the two types of word formation in English?

Lectures 9-10

suffixation? Prefixation?
How can prefixes be classified?
What categories of prefixes can

we define from the point of view of their meaning?
What are the categories of prefixes from stylistic point of view?
Give the examples of productive and non-productive prefixes in English?
What suffixes are there from the point of view of the part of speech they form?

Lectures 11-12-13

the character of the lexico-grammatical base they are added to?
Give

the semantic classification of suffixes.
What is conversion? Definition.
What are other terms for conversion?
Whom was the term introduced?
How does A.Marchand view conversion?
Does conversion occur only among simple words?
What semantic groups are singled out when verbs are converted from nouns?
Nouns from verbs?

is derived from which?
Which scholars studied this problem?
Is substantivization the

case of conversion?

word-stock?
What is the proportion between native and borrowed words in

English?
What are the semantic groups native words belong to?
Enumerate affixes of native origin?
Why are most of native words polysemantic?
What are the characteristic features of native words?
What does the term “borrowing” imply?

Lectures 14-15

early stage of its development?
What are the extra linguistic factors

which account for this great amount?
What do the nature and character of borrowings depend on?
What are the two ways borrowings can enter the language?
What are the categories of borrowings according to the degree of assimilation?
What are barbarisms?
What do you know about the pronunciation of the digraph: CH?

peculiarities of French borrowings?
What is another term for phonetic borrowings?
Give

the example of translation loans?
What are hybrids?
What are etymological doublets?