Contrastive Lexicology 2nd year students 2010

Exam topics

1. The subject-matter of Contrastive Lexicology.

2. Contrastive Lexicology in historical perspective. The development of
Contrastive Lexicology in Ukraine.
3. Methods of linguistic research in Contrastive Lexicology.
4. Word-building: affixation and conversion.
5. Word-building: composition and shortening.
6. Minor types of word-building: onomatopoeia, reduplication, back-formation.
7. The functions of diminutive affixes in English and Ukrainian.
8. The principles of communicative approach to word meaning.
9. The semantic structure of the word (field approach).
10. The characteristics of the denotative macrocomponent of meaning.
11. The characteristics of the connotative macrocomponent of meaning.
12. The actual sense of the word and its types.
13. Homonymy in English and Ukrainian. Paronyms.
14. Synonymy in English and Ukrianian. Euphemisms. Antonyms
15. Types of relations between lexemes: inclusion, overlapping, complementation,
contiguity.
16. Neologisms in English and Ukrainian and their types.
17. Semantic fields. Lexical and semantic groups. Thematic (ideographic) groups.
18. The etymological structure of the English language: words of native origin and
foreign elements.
19. Assimilation of borrowings. Etymological doublets.
20. The etymological structure of the Ukrainian vocabulary: words of native origin
and borrowed words.
21. The stylistic classification of English vocabulary. Informal style.
22. The stylistic classification of English vocabulary: formal style.
23. The stylistic classification of Ukrainian vocabulary. Stylistically neutral and
stylistically coloured vocabulary.
24. Territorial and social dialects of the Ukrainian language.
25. Internationalisms and their types.
26. Understanding the term phraseological unit. The difference between PU and
free word groups.
27. Classifications and structure of Pus according to different scholars.
28. Problems of rendering of PU.
29. Convergent and divergent features of PU in English and Ukrainian.
30. The origin of English and Ukrainian phraseological units. Sources of
phraseology.
31. The ways of forming PUs. Proverbs and sayings.
32. The lingual versatility in the world. The status of the English language.
33. The peculiarities of British English. Received pronunciation.
34. The peculiarities of American English.
35. The peculiarities of American and Canadian English.
36. The peculiarities of Australian and New Zealand English.