Đề cương thi môn ngữ nghĩa học

Chapter 1
• What are the subject matters of lexicology?
• What are the tasks of lexicology?
• How to distinguish between word and vocabulary.
• Present your knowledge about the principal branches of lexicology.
• Present your knowledge about the types of lexicology.
• Why is lexicology studied and its significance?
• The relationship between phonology & lexicology.
• The relationship between grammar & lexicology.
• The relationship between stylistics & lexicology.
• Present your knowledge about the growth of the English vocabulary and the reasons for
that growth.
• Present your knowledge about the basic stock of words and its characteristics.
Chapter 2
• Styles
Informal style
Colloquial words
Slang
Dialectisms
Vulgarisms
Formal style
Learned words
Archaic and poetic words
Technical terms
Barbarisms
• British and American variants of the English Language.
Variation in pronunciation
Variation in spelling
Variation in grammar
Variation in vocabulary
• Classify the following words into suitable kinds of word.
exam
to make up
snack
to turn in
mob
sky pilot
brass
sum mat
hell !
damn it !
assist
solitude
anorexia
to begin
a’ la mode
kirk
matine’e
crummy
thee
labialization
morn
errant
cop
baccy
chick
perspire
urination
endeavor
approximately
billow
hapless
glottal stop
chip
• Present your knowledge about British and American Variation in pronunciation of the
English Language.
• Present your knowledge about British and American Variation in spelling of the English
Language.
• Present your knowledge about British and American Variation in grammar of the English
Language.
• Present your knowledge about British and American Variation in vocabulary of the
English Language.

Write down the missing British or American words.

BE
AE
apartment
note
motorway
chimney
handbag
undershirt
kerosine
rubber
aerial
bandage

BE
AE
label
lorry
cinema
chemist
goods
football
inverted comma
dustbin
toilet
Chapter 3
Word structure
•
○ Morpheme
○ Types of morpheme
○ Word formation
• Affixation
Compounding
Shortening
Conversion
Sound and stress interchange
• How to distinguish between compounds and free word groups? Give examples to support
your answer.
• Shortly present your knowledge about the morpheme in English.
• Demonstrate that elements as “beautiful”, “house” and “talk” are words.
• Shortly present your knowledge about word formation in English by Affixation.
• Shortly present your knowledge about word formation in English by Compounding
• Shortly present your knowledge about word formation in English by Shortly present your
knowledge about word formation in English by Shortening
.

Shortly present your knowledge about word formation in English by Shortly present your
knowledge about word formation in English by Sound and Stress interchange.

State the types of shortening: B.A, UNESCO, IMF, ICO, prep, air con, pop, fridge, ad, I.O.U, V-
day, sis, brunch, motel, prof, perm
How many morphemes are there in the following sentences and what kinds of morphemes are
they?
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness in the world.

“Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of
time. Drop a grain of wheat into the ground and – lo! – a mystery.”

“ We have had nuclear weapons for over 50 years and that could destroy the world, but we
haven’t used them to do it and this is surely the greatest wonder of all.

If he’s at home on the weekend, he and his wife sometimes play golf, but that doesn’t happen
very often.

America made California an American state in 1850, two years after winning it from Mexico in
the Mexican-American War.

Hollywood Boulevard has the names of more than 2,500 film stars on stars in the sidewalk on its
five-and-a-half kilometer Walk of Fame.

“ That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Chapter 4
1. Define as many as possible the meanings of the following words:
a. mean
b. kind
c. bank
d. match
e. light
f. dull

Give your own examples to illustrate your ideas.

2. Semantic groups of words
Homonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
3. Present your understanding about classification of homonyms.
4. Present your understanding about classification of Synonyms.
5. Present your understanding about classification of antonyms