Typology of the lexical systems

CONTRASTIVE TYPOLOGY

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Practical Class 1

CONTRASTIVE TYPOLOGY, ITS AIMS AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATION

Plan:

1. The subject of contrastive typology and its theoretical and practical aims.

2. The 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, etc.).

4. The typological method vs. the historical and comparative method, the contrastive linguistic method of investigation.

5. Give a short prehistory of European contrastive typology of the 17^th – 18th centuries.

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

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

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

9. The dominant typical features of a language vs. the structural type of this language.

Practical Classes 2 - 3

TYPOLOGY OF THE LEXICAL SYSTEMS

Plan:

● Factors Facilitating the Typological Study of Lexicon

● The Semiotic or Global Classification of Lexicon

● Socially, Stylistically and Functionally Distinguished Classes of Words

● Onomasiological and Semasiological Characteristics of Different Units of Lexicon

● Specifically English Types of Word-Formation

Topics for Comprehension Check:

1. Point to the extralingual factors predetermining the birth and functioning of universal lexicon.

2. Name and characterise all 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 onomasiological structure of some English vs. Russian notional and functional words.

4. Point to the correlation of the phonetic / phonological, morphological, and semantic types of motivation in the lexical units of English and Russian.

5. Point out the typologically isomorphic layers of lexicon in the English and Russian languages. State the correlation between the stylistically neutral and stylistically evaluative units of lexicon in the contrasted languages.

6. Characterise the socially predetermined layers of lexicon in the contrasted languages. Expand on the international terminological, professional, literary, colloquial, low colloquial etc. words and expressions in the contrasted languages.

7. Expand on the 1) common Indo-European stock of words in English and Russian; 2) on nationally specific English vs. Russian lexis.

8. Define the types of derivational morphemes / affixes and the role of agglutination in English and Russian word-formation.

9. Speak on the national and international word-forming / affixal morphemes in English and Russian.

10. Expand on the phenomenon of substantivisation, adjectivisation, verbalisation and adverbialisation in English and Russian.

11. Expand on the typological isomorphism of suppletivity as a word-formating and form-building means in English and Russian.

12. Point out the isomorphic and allomorphic features in the identification, classification and functioning of international, national, and universal types of idiomatic expressions.

13. Expand on the typological classification of idiomatic and stable expressions in the genealogically different languages.

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