THE SUGGESTED SCHEME OF LEXICOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
I. Etymology of the words, Identify native and foreign words in
the text (of Greek.
Latin, French, Italian, Spanish,
Russian etc, origin). Determine the type of
assimilation (phonetic, grammatical, lexical), the degree of assimilation (complete,
partial, lack of assimilation).
II. Word-formation. Find productive and non-productive
ways of word-formation in
the text. Find derived and compound words in the text Determine the type of word-
derivation (affixation or conversion). State morphemic structure of the derived words,
types of morphemes Determine the type of compound words (compound proper,
derivational compounds, words of secondary derivation).
Find other cases of word
formation in the text.
III. Free-word groups. Pick out from the text some free word-groups, determine their
type according to the syntactic connection between the components. Classify the
selected free word-groups according to the part of speech the head-word belongs to.
Define the context (grammatical, lexical) for the headword in the selected word-
groups.
IV. Phraseological Units. Find the phraseological units in the text.
Making use of
semantic, contextual and functional classifications of phraseological units define their
types.
V. Semantics. Define the meanings of words in free word-groups which you selected
for the analysis. Using the dictionary state whether the words are used in their main or
derived meanings. Determine the context (lexical or grammatical) which helps to
actualise the meaning of polysemantic word.
Topics for essays
1. A Word as the Unit of Language and as the Unit of Speech.
2. Concept and Meaning.
3. Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to the Study of Language.
4. Word of Native Origin and their Characteristics.
5. Foreign Elements in Modern English.
6. Etymological Doublets. Hybrids.
7. Assimilation of Borrowings.
8. Morphological Structure of a Word.
9. Structural Types of Words.
10. Productive Ways of Word-Formation.
11. .Non-productive ways of Word-formation.
12. New Tendencies in Present-Day English Word-Formation.
13. Referential and Functional Approaches to the study of Word meaning.
14. Types of Word Meaning.
15. Main tendencies of the Change of meaning.
16. Polysemy. Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Polysemy.
17. The Semantic Structure of a Polysemantic Word.
18. Context. Linguistic and Non-linguistic Contexts.
19. Free Word-groups and Phraseological Units.
20. Classification of Free Word-groups
21. Classification of
Phraseological Units
22. Homonyms
23. Synonyms. Paronyms.
24. Antonyms. .Hyponymy.
25. Semantic grouping of the English Vocabulary
26. .Vocabulary as an adaptive System.
27. Lexico-semantic Groups. Semantic Fields.
28. Some of the Main Problems of Lexicography
29. Main Types of
English Dictionaries
30. Historical Development of British and American Lexicography.
31. Variants and Dialects of the English language
32. Regional and Social Varieties of English
33. The Theoretical and Practical Value of English Lexicology
and its connection
with other Branches of Linguistics.