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Seminar#9
Typology of lexical level of English and Native Languages
►Classroom activities
Exercise#2. Fill the chart below. What branches of lexical typology do you
know?
Go round the class and compare your list with other classmates.
Exercise#8. Match the terms with their definitions.
1.Simple words
- b
2.Derived words
- c
3.Compound words
- d
4.Compound-derived words
- a
►Home activities
Exercise#1. Match the definitions.
Typology
is the study of patterns that occur
systematically across languages
Lexical typology
deals with the units of lexical levels. It
studies inter-lingual
paradigms of words,
inter-lingual
invariance
of
meanings
expressed by words and phrases.
Lexical typology:
Lexical typology of words
Word-building typology
Comparative lexicology
Etc.
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Semantic typology
the systematic cross-linguistic study of how
languages express meaning by way of
signs
Exercise#3. Fill the cluster. According to the nature of borrowings, they can
be classified in all languages into:
Exercise#3.True/False statements.
11.
True
12.
False
13.
False
14.
True
15.
False
16.
True
17.
True
18.
False
19.
True
20.
True
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Activities for self-improvement
Exercise#1.
Answers can be varied.
Exercise#2. Fill the table: Hand vs. arm, foot vs. leg, finger vs. toe in English,
Russian and Uzbek.
Answers can be varied.
Exercise#3. As you know, a loan word taken over from another proper
language can be modified in phonetic shape, spelling, paradigm or meaning
according to the standards of the language. Give examples.
Answers can be varied.
Borrowings
Loan words
Translation
loans
Semantic loans
