Lexicology
1. The subject-matter of Contrastive Lexicology. Contrastive Lexicology in historical perspective. The development of Contrastive Lexicology in Ukraine. 2. Methods of linguistic research in Contrastive Lexicology. 3. Word-building: affixation, conversion, composition and shortening. 4. Minor types of word-building: onomatopoeia, reduplication, back-formation. 5. The semantic structure of the word (field approach). 6. The actual sense of the word and its types. 7. Homonymy in English and Ukrainian. Paronyms. 8. Synonymy in English and Ukrianian. Euphemisms. Antonyms 9. Semantic fields. Lexical and semantic groups. Thematic (ideographic) groups. 10. The etymological structure of the English language: words of native origin and foreign elements. Assimilation of borrowings. Etymological doublets. 11. The etymological structure of the Ukrainian vocabulary: words of native origin and borrowings. 12. The stylistic classification of English and Ukrainian vocabulary. Informal and formal style. 13. Phraseological units and their semantic structure. Problems of rendering phraseological units. 14. The lingual versatility in the world. The status of the English language. The peculiarities of British and American English. Received pronunciation.
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