Microsoft Word umk 3-kurs leksikologiya kunduzgi

Seminar 1

Sciences of lexicology and stylistics and their interrelation

The object, goals and problems of Lexicology as a linguistic science

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  Subject of Lexicology, its types and branches
  
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  Interrelations of Lexicology with other linguistic sciences
  
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  The concept of the lexical unit and the lexical system
  
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  The word as the basic lexical unit
  
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  Synchronic and diachronic approaches to the study of lexical units
  

• Methods of lexicological research
Exercise 1: Answer the following questions:

1. 
   What is the subject matter of Lexicology?
   
2. 
   What types of Lexicology do you know?
   
3. 
   What aspects of the language is Lexicology connected with?
   
4. 
   What are the main features of the lexical unit?
   
5. 
   What subdivisions of Lexicology do you know?
   
6. 
   Name the branch of Lexicology which studies the following aspects of the vocabulary:
   

? a) the meaning of lexical units?

2. 
   the types of set expressions?
   
3. 
   the derivational patterns?
   
4. 
   the types of dictionaries?
   
5. 
   the origin of lexical units?
   
6. 
   the semantic classes of words?
   

Exercise 2: Analyse the following words from the grammatical, phonetic and lexicological points of view:
mouse, keyboard, AIDS, to edit, arms, slimnastics, lord.
Exercise 3: Give the synchronic and diachronic analysis of the following words: Childhood, country, chairman, lady, daisy, admiral, flower.