Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

 
 
 
 
 
 

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Seminar 10 
Typology of lexical level of English and Native Languages 
 
 
►Classroom activities
Exercise#1. Round table discussion. Divide into four groups and discuss these 
problems in groups. In 10 minutes present your topic, after all they make 
overall conclusion.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exercise#2. Discuss the following questions in mini groups.
 
 
 
What is word 
formation in 
linguistics? 
1
What functions of 
affixation in 
English and Native 
languages do you 
know
? 
4 
What ways of 
compounding are 
there in English 
and Native 
languages? 
2 
Give different 
ways of word 
formation in 
compared 
languages. 
3 
Comparison of simple 
words in compared 
languages 
The problem of 
hyperonyms and 
hyponyms in 
compared languages 
Clarification of the 
terms of polysemy 
and homonyms 
Compound words in 
English and Native 
languages 

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Exercise#3a. Look at the questions in the chart about ways of word formation 
in English, Russian and Uzbek languages. Write your answers first in the 
YOU column.
 
3b. Interview your partner and write his/her answers in your partner column. 
 
Questions
 
You
Your partner 
The 
ways 
ofword 
formation in modern 
English
 
The 
ways 
ofword 
formation in modern 
Russian
 
Five main ways of 
word 
formation 
in 
modern Uzbek
 
 
3c. compare your answers with your partner's answers.
►Home activities 
Exercise#1. Look at the text about similarities and differences of word -
formation in compared languages. There are 12 mistakes are underlined in it. 
Replace them with the correct words from the box below. 
 
origin independent prefixing bound negative full
repetition or reversal proper semi-bound prefixes
 
The main similarity of forming words is having the way of affixing in all 
compared languages. And all of them have the subtypes, such as borrowing, 
suffixing and prefix-suffix. For example, English prefixes are such particles that 
can be prefixed to separate words and it is mostly characteristic for forming verbs. 

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Prefixes can be considered more dependent than suffixes in English. They can be 
classified according to the nature of words in which they are used: prefixes used in 
notional and functional words. Prefixes used in notional words are irrelevant 
prefixes, which are semi-bound morphemes, e.g. 
re- (rewrite).
Prefixes used in 
functional words are bound morphemes because they are met in the language as 
words, e.g. 
over- (overprotected) ( cf. over the book ).
Prefixes can be classified according to different principles: 
1. Semantic classification:
a) prefixes of positivemeaning, such as: 
in- (invaluable), non- (non-
morphological), un- (unhappy)
etc.
b) prefixes denoting planned actions, such as: 
de- (deregulate), re- (redo), dis- 
(disappear). 
c) prefixes denoting time, space, degree relations, such as : 
inter- (international) , 
hyper- (hypertension), ex- (ex-friend), pre- (pre-reading), over- (overhead)
etc.
2.Usage of prefixes can be classified as follows:
a) native (Germanic), such as: