LECTURE 1. CONTRASTIVE LEXICOLOGY OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN: FUNDAMENTALS
1. Comparative versus contrastive linguistics
1.1. Three dimensions of classifying types of linguistic enterprise
1.2. Fundamental assumption and subdivisions of comparative linguistics
2. Contrastive lexicology as a subdivision of contrastive linguistics
3. Tasks of contrastive lexicology. Its theoretical and practical value
4. Seminar tasks and questions
5. Seminar library
6. Additional Resources. Part 1
LECTURE 2. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FORMAL STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN WORDS
1. The word as a fundamental unit of the language
1.1. Some general issues of the theory of the word
1.2. Criteria of the definition
2. Morphemes: free and bound forms
3. Morphemes: contribution to the meaning and function of the word
4. Contrastive analysis of the morphemic structure of English and Ukrainian words
5. Seminar tasks and questions
6. Seminar library
7. Additional resources: Part 2
8. Additional resources: Part 3
LECTURE 3. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CATEGORIES AND TYPES OF PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN WORD-FORMATION
1. Definition of the field of word-formation
2. Principal types of word-formation
3. Word-formation rules
4. Productivity of different types of word-formation
5. Contrastive analysis of affixation in English and Ukrainian
6. Seminar tasks and questions
7. Seminar library
8. Additional Resources: Part. 4
LECTURE 4. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF COMPOUNDING IN ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN
1. Compounding as the type of word-formation
1.1. Characteristic features of compounds and the treatment of compounds in linguistics
1.2. Types of compounds and suggested classification in terms of syntactic paraphrase
2. Contrastive analysis of noun compounds in English and Ukrainian
3. “Bahuvrihi” compounds
4. Reduplicatives
5. Seminar tasks and questions
6. Seminar library
7. Additional Resources: Part 5
LECTURE 5. CONTRASTIVE STUDIES OF SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN WORDS: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
1. The study of meaning: semasiology and semantics
2. Semiotics. Dimensions of semiosis in lexicological studies
3. Comparability criterion: possible approaches to establishing tertia comparationis in contrastive lexicology
4. Seminar tasks and questions
5. Seminar library
6. Additional Resources: Part 6
LECTURE 6. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN WORDS: FEATURE APPROACH
1. The nature of semantic change
2. Types of semantic change
3. Processes involved in changes of the semantic structure of words
4. Seminar tasks and questions
5. Seminar library
6. Additional Resources: Part 7
LECTURE 7. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN WORDS: FIELD APPROACH
1. Factors facilitating the contrastive study of lexicon
2. Lexical fields
3. The semantic relationship of synonymy
4. Approaches to the research of synonyms in contrastive lexicology
5. Seminar tasks and questions
6. Seminar library
7. Additional resources: Part 8
LECTURE 8. CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN WORDS: CONCEPT APPROACH
1. Defining cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics
2. Defining concept in modern cognitive science
3. Principal approaches to studying concepts
4. Conceptual analysis in contrastive lexicology
5. Seminar tasks and questions
6. Seminar library
7. Additional Resources: Part 9
8. Additional Resources: Part 10
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