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SEMINARS 17-18. TYPOLOGY OF LEXICAL LEVEL OF 
ENGLISH AND NATIVE LANGUAGES 
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Classroom activities
 
 
xercise 1.
Round table discussion. Divide into four groups and discuss these 
problems in groups. In 10 minutes present your topic, after all they make 
overall conclusion.
 
Exercise 2
. Discuss the following questions in mini groups.
Comparison of 
simple words in 
compared languages 
The problem of 
hyperonyms and 
hyponyms in 
compared 
languages 
Clarification of the 
terms of polysemy 
and homonyms 
Compound words in 
English and Native 
languages 

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Exercise 3a.
Look at the questions in the chart about ways of word formation 
in English, Russian and Uzbek languages. Write your answers first in the 
YOU column.
3b. Interview your partner and write his/her answers in your partner column. 
Questions 
You
Your partner 
The 
ways 
ofword 
formation in modern 
English 
The 
ways 
ofword 
formation in modern 
Russian 
Five main ways of 
word 
formation 
in 
modern Uzbek 
3c. Compare your answers with your partner's answers. 
►Home activities 
Exercise 1
. Look at the text about similarities and differences of word -
formation in compared languages. There are 12 mistakes are underlined in it. 
Replace them with the correct words from the box below. 
origin independent prefixing bound negative full
repetition or reversal proper semi-bound prefixes
 
The main similarity of forming words is having the way of affixing in all 
compared languages. And all of them have the subtypes, such as borrowing, 
suffixing and prefix-suffix. For example, English prefixes are such particles 

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that can be prefixed to separate words and it is mostly characteristic for 
forming verbs. Prefixes can be considered more dependent than suffixes in 
English. They can be classified according to the nature of words in which they 
are used: prefixes used in notional and functional words. Prefixes used in 
notional words are irrelevant prefixes, which are semi-bound morphemes, e.g. 
re- (rewrite).
Prefixes used in functional words are bound morphemes because 
they are met in the language as words, e.g. 
over- (overprotected) ( cf. over the 
book ).
Prefixes can be classified according to different principles: 
1. Semantic classification:
a) prefixes of positivemeaning, such as: 
in- (invaluable), non- (non-
morphological), un- (unhappy)
etc.
b) prefixes denoting planned actions, such as: 
de- (deregulate), re- (redo), dis- 
(disappear). 
c) prefixes denoting time, space, degree relations, such as : 
inter- 
(international) , hyper- (hypertension), ex- (ex-friend), pre- (pre-reading), 
over- (overhead)
etc.
2.Usage of prefixes can be classified as follows:
a) native (Germanic), such as: 
un-, over-, under-
etc.
b) Romanic, such as : 
in-, de-, ex-, re-
etc.
c) Greek, such as : 
sym-, hyper-
etc. 
Besides, there are a lot of borrowed suffixes in English: 
Auto-, Demi-, Mono-, Multi-, Semi-, Post-;