Test Questions and Tasks

А. Consider your answers to the following:

Which lexicological problems is the problem of number of vocabulary items connected with?

What is the difference between an obsolete and an archaic word?

What is a neologism? What is the difference between a neologism and an occassional word?

What are the structural and semantic peculiarities of the new vocabulary units?

How is it possible to regard the vocabulary of a language as an organized system? What are the elements of such a system?

What structural types of words do we distinguish in English?

Why is the grouping of vocabulary into parts of speech called lexical-grammatical classification?

What are the main points of the semantic field theory?

What are the main approaches to the definition of synonyms? On what criteria are these definitions based? Which aspects of these definitions are open to question?

What types of synonyms do you know? Give examples.

What are the characteristic features of the dominant synonym?

Which words do we usually classify as antonyms? Give your own examples of such words.

Which word is called a hyperonym and which is a hyponym? Give your own examples of hypero-hyponymic relations.

B. Match the Ukrainian term with the corresponding English equivalent.

System	Лексико-граматична группа
Adaptive system	Еквивалентність
Set	Парадигма
Structured set	Конотація
Fuzzy set	Семантичне поле
Equivalence	Система
Lexico-grammatical group	Антонім
Lexico-semantic group	Адаптивна система
Semantic field	Синонім
Synonym	Угрупування
Antonym	Структуроване угрупування
Hyponymy	Гіпонімія
Paradigm	Невизначене угрупування
Connotation	Лексико-семантична група
Active vocabulary	Ідеографічні групи
Passive vocabulary	Складні слова
Obsolete words	Емоційно нейтральні слова
Archaisms	Неологізми
Historisms	Тематичні групи
Neologisms	Архаїзми
Simple words	Історизми
Derived words	Прості слова
Compound words	Емоційно забарвлені слова
Compound derivatives	Активний вокабуляр
Emotionally colored words	Дериваційні складні слова
Intensifiers	Пасивний вокабуляр
Evaluatory words	Похідні слова
Emotionally neutral words	Застарілі слова
Thematic groups	Слова-інтенсифікатори
Ideographic groups	Оцінні слова