Table of contents

Введение

3

Part One

Lecture 1

4

1. General characteristics of Lexicology

2. Branches of Lexicology

3. The connection of Lexicology with other branches of Linguistics

4. Synchronic and Diachronic Lexicology

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5

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8

Seminar 1

9

Lecture 2

12

1. Lexical units. The word as a fundamental unit of the language

2. Components of the word meaning

3. Word-Meaning and Motivation

4. Types of Meaning

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Seminar 2

18

Lecture 3

20

1. Types of context

2. Word-meaning in syntagmatics and paradigmatics

3. Polysemy and ways of its development

4. Types of lexical meaning

5. Types of polysemy

6. Types of semantic changes

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Seminar 3

31

Part Two

Lecture 4

34

1. Homonymy. Classifications of homonyms

2. Sources of homonymy

3. Synonyms. Classification of synonyms. Euphemisms

4. Antonyms. Their classification

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Seminar 4

40

Lecture 5

44

1. The volume of the vocabulary

2. Archaisms

3. Neologisms

4. Professional terminology

5. Standard English. Slang

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Seminar 5

50

Part Three

Lecture 6

53

1. Types of word combinations. Classifications of word-groups

2. Free word groups

3. Phraseology as a subsystem of language

4. A phraseological unit

5. Distinction between free word-groups and phraseological units

6. Classification of phraseological units

7. Sources of phraseological units

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Seminar 6

59

Lecture 7

63

1. Morphological structure of the English word

2. Word-formation

3. Affixation. Prefixation

4. Suffixation. Classifications of suffixes

5. Conversion

6. Other types of word-formation

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Seminar 7

70

Part Four

Lecture 8

73

1. British English and American English as the main variants of the English language

2. Morphological peculiarities of American words

3. Grammar peculiarities of American words

4. Lexical peculiarities of the two variants

5. The future of the English language

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Seminar 8

80

Lecture 9

83

1. Lexicography as a branch of linguistics, its aims and significance

2. The history of dictionary making

3. Classification of dictionaries

4. Main types of linguistic dictionaries of the English language

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Seminar 9

89

Modern Dictionaries

91

Part Five

Вопросы к зачету

Итоговый тест

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95

Заключение

99

Список литературы

101