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самостоятельной работы 
 
I. 
Dynamics of English vocabulary 
Контрольные вопросы 
1. What is the volume of present-day English vocabulary as compared with its earlier 
periods? 
2. What are the functional and the recognition vocabulary of an educated speaker?
3. What ways of enlarging and enriching vocabulary are there in English? 
4. What are neologisms? What ways of forming neologisms are productive in 
present-day English? What spheres of communication are rich in neologisms? 
5. What are archaisms? What is the difference between historisms and archaisms in 
the proper sense of the word? 
6. Name the stages of a word turning into an archaism.
 
Задание для самостоятельной работы 
1. Make up a scheme of the characteristic features of English vocabulary. 
2. Make up a scheme of the changes in English vocabulary. 
3. Make up a scheme of the ways of forming neologisms. 
4. Make up a scheme of the stages of a word turning into an archaism. 
5. Make up a scheme of the lexico-semantic system of a word (paradigmatic and 
syntagmatic relations of a word). 
6. Analyse the lexico-semantic system of a word HARD (as opposed to EASY). 
7. Make up a scheme of the types of lexical subsystems. 
8. Learn the terms on the topic from the list of terms. 
II. 
Etymological characteristics of English vocabulary 
Контрольные вопросы 
1. What is the rate of borrowed words in English? 
2. What words are defined as native? What is there origin? 
3. What are the sources of borrowing in English? What languages made the greatest 
contribution to English vocabulary? 
4. Characterize the periods of borrowing from Latin. 
5. Characterize French borrowings. 
6. What are the peculiarities of the impact of Scandinavian dialects on English 
vocabulary? 
7. What types of borrowing are there?
8. What is assimilation of borrowings? What types of assimilation are there? What 
are partially assimilated words? Which kind of borrowings is more easily 
assimilated? 
9. What are hybrids?

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10. What are etymological doublets? How do they come about? 
11. What are international words? What are their sources? What are 
pseudointernational words?