Word-Building Lecture

Course Structure
Lectures (28): Types of lexical units
The etymology of English words. Native words. Loan words. Word structure. Morphemes. Classification of morphemes. Major types of Word building: Affixation. Conversion. Composition; Shortening. Minor types of word building (sound imitation, back formation, blending). Set expressions. Set expressions and words. Classification of set expressions.

Seminars (8) and Assignments
1 Morphemes. Classification of morphemes
2 Affixation
3 Conversion
4 Composition
Assignment 1 Lexicology as a branch of Linguistics); 2 часа: 1) Revise the notes of lecture 1; 2) reading: Antrushina G.B. Lexicology of the English Language ; chapter 1, p. 6-21; exercises (p.21-26); Arnold I.V. The English Word; p. 9-25.

Final Test Questions
The object of lexicology
Synchronic and diachronic study.
Syntagmatic and paradygmatic relations.
The concept of a vocabulary as a system.
Types of lexical units.
The word as the basic unit of language.
The word and morpheme: similarities and differences
The word and set expression (phraseological unit)

Final Test Questions
The morphological structure of the word: roots, stems, affixes.
The roots versus radical (element)
Derivational versus functional affixes.
Affixation as one of the major types of word-formation. Affixes: suffixes and prefixes.
Native versus borrowed affixes.
Compounding as one of the major types of word-formation. The structure of compounds.
Neutral compounds.
Morphological compounds.

Final Test Questions
Syntactical compounds.
Determinatum and determinant. Exocentric and endocentric compounds.
Specific features of English compounding.
The semantic structure of compounds. Idiomatic versus non-idiomatic compounds.
Criteria for distinguishing compounds from free word- combinations.
Semi-affixes.
"Stone-wall" problem.
Phrasal verbs.

Final Test Questions
Conversion as a specifically English way of word- formation.
The correlation of a curtailed word with its prototype.
Classification of clippings.
Telescoping (blending) as a minor type of word- formation.
Abbreviations.
The terms "phraseology" and "idiom"
Phraseological units versus free word-combinations. Classifications of phraseological units.
The etymological structure of English vocabulary: the native element
The borrowed versus native words.

Основная литература
Антрушина Г.Б. Лексикология английского языка.
Арнольд И.В. Лексикология современного английского языка
Богрданова Т.Н. Лексикология английского языка Сборник тестов для студентов 3 курса
Гвишиани Н.Б. Современный английский язык: Лексикология
Дорджиева Е.В.Seminars in lexicology. Word Formation

Дополнительная литература
Арбекова Т.И.Лексикология английского языка (практический курс).
Crystal D. Words, words, words. Oxford Oxford university press 2006,2007
1) http:www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
2) acronyms.silmaril.ie/
3) Macmillan
4) BBCLearnEnglish
5) theguardian.uk.co

Questions
The object of lexicology
Synchronic and diachronic study.
Syntagmatic and paradygmatic relations.
The concept of a vocabulary as a system.
Key words and concepts: lexicology, word, lexical item, lexeme, vocabulary, system

The object of lexicology
Lexicology (from Gr lexis ‘word’ and logos ‘learning’ is the part of linguistics dealing with the vocabulary of the language and the properties of words as the main units of language.
Vocabulary is the system formed by the sum total of all the words and word equivalents that the language possesses.
The word is the basic unit of a language resulting from the association of a particular meaning with a particular group of sounds capable of a particular grammatical employment.

Structural features of the word:
The modern approach to word studies is based on distinguishing between the external and internal structures of the word.
The external structure of the word, or its morphological structure (item and arrangement) is studied in part 1 word-building (word-formation). The internal (semantic) structure of the word, or its meaning, is studied in the course of semantics (part 2).
Formal unity
Semantic unity (conveys one concept)

Words: for and against
Wordsmithery
Wordsmiths, word-buffs, wordaholics
1 wine/film/opera etc buff someone who is interested in wine, films etc and knows a lot about them
A word is medicine to the wise (Telugu)
A word spoken at the right moment is like a golden apple on a silver dish (Silesian)
Words are good but hens lay eggs (German)