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SCHEME OF LEXICOLOGICAL TEXT ANALYSYS

 

Etymology

 

1.a. Pick out 10 native words of the common Indo-European word-stock. b. Give their cognates in the languages you know.

c. Classify them according to semantic spheres they belong to.

 

2.a. Pick out 10 native words of the common Germanic word-stock. b. Give their German cognates.

c. Classify them according to semantic spheres they belong to.

 

3.Enumerate the main peculiarities of native words and give illustrations from the text.

 

4.a. Pick out 15 borrowings taken over from Latin, Greek, Old Norse

(Scandinavian), Celtic, Italian and other languages.

b. Define their source and/or origin and the type of borrowing.

 

5.Give several examples of completely assimilated and partially assimilated borrowings and define the type of assimilation in each particular case.

 

6.Pick out several hybrids and analyse them etymologically.

 

7.a. Pick out several words which have etymological doublets. b. State their origin and meaning.

 

8.a. Pick out 10 international words. b. Define their origin.

c. Classify them according to semantic spheres they belong to.

 

Morphological structure and word formation

 

1.Pick out several words with a different morphological structure for a detailed analysis:

1) on the morphemic level;

2) on the derivational level.

 

2.a. Point out all the words formed by means of prefixation. b. State what parts of speech they belong to.

c. Characterize the prefixes according to their origin, meaning, and productivity.

 

 


3.a. Point out all the words formed by means of suffixation. b. State what parts of speech they belong to.

c. Characterize the suffixes according to their origin, meaning, and productivity.

 

4.a. Point out all the compound words.

b. State what parts of speech they belong to.

c. Characterize them according to the way their components are joined together and according to the relationship between them.

d. State whether they are proper compounds or derivational compounds. e. Define the degree of their motivation.

 

5.a. Point out all the words formed by means of conversion and characterize them according to their meaning and function.

b. Supply the missing members of conversion pairs.

 

6.Pick out several words formed by means of shortening and other ways of word- formation.

 

Semasiology

 

1.Pick out several instances of semantic change and analyse them in detail.

 

 

2.Pick out 10 polysemantic words and give a detailed analysis of their semantic structure.

 

 

3.a. Pick out 10 words you find linguistically interesting and supply them with homonyms.

b. Characterize the resulting homonymic pairs (or groups) according to the type of

homonymy.

c. Prove that the words in question are homonyms and not polysemantic words.

 

 

4.a. Pick out several words you find linguistically interesting and supply them with synonyms.



b. Define the source of synonymy.

c. Characterize the resulting synonymic groups.

 

 

5.a. Pick out several words you find linguistically interesting and supply them with antonyms.

b. Characterize the resulting antonymic pairs.

 


6.Prove that one and the same polysemantic word may enter different synonymic groups, by giving examples from the text.

 

 

7.Prove that one and the same polysemantic word may enter different antonymic pairs, by giving examples from the text.

 


Date: 2016-04-22; view: 1203


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