Synonymy. Antonymy

1.How are words classified by the criterion of semantic similarity and semantic contrast?

2.How are synonyms traditionally described? Is this definition subject to criticism?

3.What is the traditional classification of synonyms?

4.What definition of synonyms is proposed by the Russian school of lexicology?

5.How can the fact that English is rich in synonyms be accounted for?

6.What are characteristic patterns of English synonymic sets?

7.How are antonyms traditionally defined?

8.Why is this definition open to criticism?

9.What two groups can antonyms be devided into on the basis of semantic relations between two words regarded as antonyms?

Theme 3 Word-groups and Phraseological Units. Free Word-groups. Lexical Valency. Grammatucal Valency. Criteria of Stability and Lack of Motivation,

1.How do we define the word-group?

2.How can word-groups be classified according to the criterion of structural and semantic cohesion?

3.What are the main factors which are active in uniting words into word-groups?

4.What is lexical valency? Grammatical valency?

5.What is a speech cliché?

6.What does departure from the norm of lexical valency of a word result in?

7. How do you understand restrictions of lexical valency of polysemantic words – members of a word-group?

8.What is grammatical valency? What does departure from the norm of grammatical valency of a word result in?

9.How can the lexical meaning of a word-group be defined?

10.How are polysemantic words used in word-groups?

11.What is the structural meaning of a word-group?

12.What is the syntactic structure (formula) of word-groups?

13.What do we understand the pattern of word-groups?

14.How are word-groups described from the point of view of their motivation?

Phraseological Units

15.What is the subject-matter of phraseology?

16.How can the existence of several terms that are widely used to denote phraseological units be accounted for?

17.What does the term set-phrase imply? Idiom? Word-equivalent?

18.How do we understand criteria of stability and lack of motivation (idiomaticity) when applied to phraseological units?

19.How are phraseological units classified according to the degree of idiomaticity?

20.What are phrasemes?

21.How are idioms defined?

22.How do phraseological units appear in language? What does the term lexicalisation imply?

23.When may a free word-group be transformed into a phraseological unit?

24.What are the main causes accounting for the loss of motivation of free word-groups?

Theme 4 Word-structure. Classification of morphemes.

1.How can you characterise most English words from the point of view of their structure?

2.How do we define a morpheme?

3.What two classes do all English words fall into from the point of view of the complexity of their morphemic structure?

4.What is the morphemic analysis? What for do lexicologists carry it out?

5.How do we classify morphemes from the semantic point of view and from the structural point of view?

6.What is the root morpheme?

7.What two groups are the non-root (affixational) morphemes divided into?

8.How are affixes classified?

9.What two classes do all words fall into according to their derivational structure?

10.What are derivatives?

11.How are words classified according to their derivational structure?

12.How are complexes classified?

13.How are derived words classified?