ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY
"To have another language is to possess a second soul..."
Charlemagne
1.General problems of the theory of the word.
2.Etymological characteristics of the Modern English vocabulary.
3.Words of native origin.
4.Borrowings in English
5.Types of morphemes.
6.Morphemic analysis of words.
7.Derivational analysis.
8.The system of affixation in English.
9.Conversion. Conversion as a way of word-formation.
10.Word – composition in English and its specific features.
11.Specific features of English compounds.
12.The criteria of compounds.
13.Classification of compounds.
14.Shortening of words.
15.Minor ways of word-building.
16.Semasiology.
17 Types of meaning.
20.Word meaning and motivation.
21.Different types of semantic change.
22.Meaning and polysemy.
23.Homonymy.
24.Sources of homonymy.
25.Classification of homonyms.
26.Synonyms and antonyms.
27.Sources of synonymy.
28.Classification of synonymy.
29.The main problems of lexicography.
30.Variants and dialects of English.
31.General etymological survey of the English vocabulary.
32.Neologisms and occasional words.
33.Obsolete and archaic words.
34.Different types of semantic transfer.
35.Polisemy and context.
36.Idiomaticity or phraseology in the English language.
37.The main problems of phraseology.
38.Sources of phraseological units.
39.The origin of English words.
40.Classification of phraseological units.
41.Assimilation of borrowings in English.
42.Celtic and Scandinavian borrowings.
43.Classical element and French borrowings.
44.Spanish and Italian borrowing. Russian and German borrowings.
45.American English.
46.Replenishment of the English vocabulary.