Seminars in English Lexicology
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ
Высшая Школа Экономики
Нижегородский филиал
Центр Языковой Подготовки
Т . А . Ненашева
SEMINARS IN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY
Учебно-методическое пособие
Нижний Новгород
2010 г .
ББК 81.2 Англ 923
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Ненашева, Т.А. Семинары по английской лексикологии (Seminars in English Lexicology): Учебно-методическое пособие для слушателей языкового центра НФ ГУ-ВШЭ - Нижний Новгород: НФ ГУ- ВШЭ, 2010. - 42 с.
Пособие представляет собой сборник практических заданий по некоторым темам для семинарских занятий по лексикологии и снабжено приложением, содержащим примерный лексикологический анализ текста, а также необходимые справочные данные.
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Т . А . Ненашева
SEMINARS IN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY
Учебно- методическое пособие
Семинар 1
Etymological Structure of the English Vocabulary
I. Speak on the following topics.
1. Native words, their classification and characteristics.
2. Latin borrowings in English.
3. French borrowings and their influence on the English vocabulary.
4. Celtic and Scandinavian borrowings.
5. Italian, German, Spanish and minor borrowings.
6. Assimilation of borrowings and types of assimilation.
II. Do the following assignments.
Use the Etymological Glossary on p. 25.
Assignment 1.
Subdivide the following native words into two groups according to their native element (words of common Indo-European word-stock and words of common Germanic word stock).
Apple, always, ask, above, any, be, blood, boat, bread, foot, keep, child, know, kind, can, drink, eat, ear, do, queen, eight, old, even, father, full, fish, young, go, girl, glad, green, he, heart, lady, hundred, house, I, let, like, lip, love, man, milk, mother, night, red, woman, widow.
Assignment 2.
Explain the etymology of the following words. Write them out in three columns according to the degree of assimilation.
Pen, ballet, ad hoc, monk, pupil, mulatto, table, mutton, war, cycle, esthete, taiga, bourgeoisie, mosquito, chocolate, rucksack, husband, kindergarten, pioneer, coup d’etat, police, phenomenon, data, cup, cordial, admire, skirt, sari, street, vis-à-vis, psychology, egg, pneumonia, sauerkraut, sky, chauffeur, architect, cherry, archaic, chronology, pneumatics, communiqué, café, portafogli, stiletto, eau-de-Cologne, garage, wine, samovar, tête-à-tête, Luftwaffe, paper, schnitzel.
Assignment 3.