Worksheets25-50
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
connotative meaning
the positive and negative emotions associated with the word; how the word makes you feel.
demonstrative and significative
emotional, evaluative
intensifying and expressive
All answers are correct.
>….. is defined as the expression of relationships between words, more abstract and more generalized.
Lexico-grammatical meaning
Lexical meaning
Grammatical meaning
Semisology
Etimology
The material meaning of a word as distinct from its formal, grammatical meaning, which reflects the concept the word expresses
Semisology
Lexico-grammatical meaning
Grammatical meaning
Lexical meaning
Etimology
The meaning of the formal membership of a word in the grammatical system of a language (is expressed in the word's form).
Etimology
Grammatical meaning
Lexical meaning
Semisology
Lexico-grammatical meaning
Paradigm is …
>the linguistic reflection of the concept the given word expresses and the basic properties of the thing the word denotes.
the system showing a word in all its word forms.
the meaning of the formal membership of a word expressed by the word’s form.
the inner facet of the word, inseparable from its outer facet.
The system closely connected with the three components of meaning.
Synchronic approach to language ……..
the various means of expressing grammatical relations between words
the change and development of vocabulary in the course of time
the outer sound form of the word
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is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given period of time
diachronic approach to language…
is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given period of time
deals with the changes and the development of vocabulary in the course of time
the various means of expressing grammatical relations between words
the outer sound form of the word
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>……. is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given time, for instance, at the present time.
none of them
the synchronic approach
functional approach
diachronic approach
the referential approach
>…………. in terms of Special Lexicology deals with the changes and the development of vocabulary in the course of time.
diachronic approach
functional approach
the synchronic approach
the referential approach
none of them
>…….. is a unit of meaning in a language, consisting of a word or group of words?
lexeme
morpheme
abstract unit
lexical meaning
grammatical meaning
What is vocabulary?
grammatical meaning
abstract unit
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The system formed by the total sum of all the words that language possesses.
morpheme
derived word….
None of them
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a word formed or originated from another or form a root in the same or another language
object denoted by the word, part of reality;
>(thought, reference) the thought of the object that singles out its essential features;
back derivation…..
the formation of a word forms the stem (base) of another word, i.e., by means of cutting off suffixes (prefixes) from the source word
None of them
object denoted by the word, part of reality;
>(thought, reference) the thought of the object that singles out its essential features;
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What is sound-form of semantic triangle?
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object denoted by the word, part of reality;
>(thought, reference) the thought of the object that singles out its essential features;
None of them
>(symbol, sign) linguistic sign
What is referent of semantic triangle?
None of them.
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object denoted by the word, part of reality;
>(thought, reference) the thought of the object that singles out its essential features;
>(symbol, sign) linguistic sign
Semantic changes has two main ways
gradual (specialization and generalization) and momentary (metaphor and metanymy);
Ellipses and formation;
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gradual (elevation and degradation) and momentary (hyperbole and litotes);
None of them
>…….. is a transfer of the meaning on the basis of contiguity
Conversion
Metaphor
Composition
Metonymy
Word-building
>……. is a transfer of the meaning when it becomes better in the course of time, e.g. «knight» originally meant «a boy», then «a young servant», then «a military servant», then «a noble man».
Conversion
Word-building
Elevation
Composition
Metaphor
Who was written Etymological Dictionary by?
by R. Soule
by W. Skeat
by A.V. Koonin
by Samuel Johnson
by Noah Webster
>…….is a transfer of the meaning when the speaker uses exaggeration, e.g. «to hate» (doing something), (not to see somebody) «for ages».
Simile
Hyperbole
Irony
Metaphor
Euphemism
Similarity of meanings is …
Metaphor
Simile
>Litotes
Hyperbole
Metonymy
Etymological Dictionary includes …
all of them
phraseological units
resent-day words to the oldest forms of these words and forms of these words in other languages
antonyms
record only pronounciation
Secondary ways of semantic changes:
None of them
All answers are correct.
elevation and degradation, hyperbole and litotes;
gradual (specialization and generalization) and momentary (metaphor and metanymy);
Elipses and formation;
Metaphor can be based on different types of similarity:
similarity of colour:
similarity of shape:
similarity of position:
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similarity of function, behaviour:
similarity of colour is one of the metaphor types of similiarity. Find its example.
orange, hazel, chestnut
foot (of a page, of a mountain), head (of procession);
a whip (an official in the British Parliament whose duty is to see that members were present at the voting), a bookworm (a person who is fond of books);
head (of a cabbage), bottleneck, teeth (of a saw, a comb);
> none of them
