Classes 2 - 3. Typology of the lexical systems

CONTRASTIVE TYPOLOGY

OF ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES

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Class 1. CONTRASTIVE TYPOLOGY, ITS AIMS AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATION

Plan:

● Practical Aims and Tasks of Contrastive Typology;

● Methods of Investigation in Contrastive Typology;

● A Short Historical Outline of Typological Investigations.

Practical Task:

Topics for Comprehension Check (in the written form):

1. Subject of contrastive typology and its theoretical and practical aims.

2. Principal terms and notions of contrastive typology (isomorphic / allomorphic features and phenomena, absolute / near universals, typological constants, idiomatic, dominant and recessive features).

3. Kinds of typological investigations / various typologies (special typology, level typologies, areal typology).

4. Principal linguistic methods of contrastive typology (the comparative, the inductive / deductive methods, the ICs, the transformational and substitutional methods, Greenberg's indexes method).

6. Short prehistory of European contrastive typology of the 17^th – 18^th centuries.

7.The contribution to contrastive typological investigations of the brothers F. and A. Schlegel and of W. Humboldt, H. Steinthal and others in the 19^th century linguistics.

8. Prague school linguists (V. Mathesius, N. Trubetskoy, V. Skalička, R. Jakobson, and others) and their contribution to typological investigations.

9. Other 20^th century linguists (E. Sapir, J. Greenberg, O. Isachenko, N. Ya. Marr, M. Kalynovych, Y. Zhluktenko) and their contribution to Contrastive linguistics.

Classes 2 - 3. TYPOLOGY OF THE LEXICAL SYSTEMS

Practical Task:

Topics for Comprehension Check (in the written form):

1. Extralinguistic factors determining the birth and functioning of universal lexicon.

2. Name and characterize existing approaches to and principles of the systemic study and classification of lexicon.

3. Point out the common / isomorphic and divergent / allomorphic features in the structure of some English vs. Russian notional and functional words.

4. Typologically isomorphic layers of lexicon in the English and Russian languages.

5. Socially predetermined layers of lexicon in the contrasted languages – international terminological, professional, literary, colloquial, low colloquial etc. words and expressions in the contrasted languages.

6. Types of derivational morphemes / affixes and the role of agglutination in English and Russian word-formation.

9. National and international word-forming / affixal morphemes in English and Russian.

10. Phenomenon of substantivisation, adjectivisation, verbalisation and adverbialisation in English and Russian.

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