МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОСВІТИ І НАУКИ УКРАЇНИ

ІЗМАЇЛЬСЬКИЙ ІНСТИТУТ ВОДНОГО ТРАНСПОРТУ

Кафедра сучасних мов і гуманітарних дисциплін

Шиляєва Т.В.

МЕТОДИЧНІ ВКАЗІВКИ

ДО ВИВЧЕННЯ ДИСЦИПЛІНИ

“Порівняльна лексикологія ”

для студентів 3 курсу (денне відділення)

Ізмаїл 2011-2012

PLANS OF THE SEMINARS IN COMPARATIVE LEXICOLOGY

Theme і

ETYMOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MODERN ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN VOCABULARY

The aim is: to examine the etymology of the English and Ukrainian vocabulary and its historical development, the comparative importance of native and borrowed elements in replenishing the English and Ukrainian vocabulary.

The tasks are:

to differenciate words of native origin and borrowings;

to discriminate between the source of borrowing and origin of the word;

taking into consideration the pronunciation of the word, its morphological structure and lexical meaning to determine whether the word belongs to the borrowed element;

to analyze the type and degree of assimilation of borrowings;

to observe the influence of borrowings on the word-structure and the system of word-building, the phonetic structure of words and the sound system, on the semantic structure of words and their stylistic characteristics;

to learn working definitions of principal concepts.

Points for Discussion

1. The composite nature of the English vocabulary. Words of native origin (words of the Indo-European stock, of common Germanic stock, the English proper element) and their semantic characteristics, collocability, derivational potential.

2. The composite nature of the Ukrainian vocabulary.

3. Borrowings. Causes and ways of borrowing. The elements of Early Latin. Borrowings from the Scandinavian language. The Norman Conquest and Norman borrowings. The fourth layer of the Latin borrowings. The Greek element in the English vocabulary. Lexical borrowings of the Renaissance period. Various other elements in the English vocabulary. Russian and Ukrainian borrowings in the English vocabulary. Etymological doublets. International words.

4. Criteria of borrowings. Assimilation of borrowings. Type of assimilation (phonetic, grammatical and lexical assimilation of borrowing). Degree of assimilation (complete, partial, lack of assimilation) and factors determining it. Interrelation between native and borrowed elements.

Working Definitions of Principal Concepts

NATIVE	is a word which belongs to the original English stock, as known from the earliest available manuscripts of the Old English period.
BORROWING	is a word taken over from another language and also the process of adopting words from other languages.
TRANSLATION LOANS	are words and expressions formed from the material already existing in the British language lent according to patterns taken from another language, by way of literal or morpheme-for-morpheme or word-for-word translation (e.g. wall-paper –стінна газета).
SOURCE OF BORROWING	the language from which this or that particular word was taken into English.
ORIGIN OF BORROWING	the language the word may be traced to.
ASSIMILATION	a partial or total conformation to the phonetical, graphical and morphological standards of the receiving language and its semantic system.
BARBARISMS	words from other languages used by English people in conversation or in writing but not assimilated in any way, and for which there are corresponding English equivalents (e.g. Italian ‘addio’, ‘ciao’ – English ‘good-bye’).
ETYMOLOGICAL DOUBLETS	two or more words of the same language which were brought by different routes from the same basic word. They differ to a certain degree in form, meaning and current usage.
INTERNATIONAL WORDS	words of identical origin that occur in several languages as a result of simultaneous or successive borrowings from one ultimate source.

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