Introduction, Lexicology as a science

Key words :

Conversion-productive way of forming words

Different approaches to the study of conversion
Diachronic approach to the study of conversion
Synchronic approach to the study of conversion
The origin of conversion
Common types of conversion
Prof. A. Soboleva’s three criteria
Converted pairs
Shortening and its features
Abbreviations and their peculiarities
Clippings and their peculiarities
The difference between the clipping and the original word
The homonymy of abbreviations
Sound-interchange-a way of forming words diachronically
The distinction between vowel-interchange and consonant-interchange
Backformation
The peculiarities of blending

Answer the following questions

1. When was the term «conversion» first used? 2. What approaches to the study of conversion do you know? 3. Why do the treatments of conversion as a non-affixal wordbuilding, a shift from one part of speech to another cause doubt to us? 4. What is A. I. Smirnitsky's point of view to conversion? 5. What problems of conversion do you study on the diachronic level? 6. What is the origin of conver­sion? 7. How is conversion treated on synchronic level? 8. What are the most common types of conversion do you know? 9. What are the less common types of conversion? 10. How is the derived word connected with the underlying word in their meaning in converted pairs? 11. How should we say that one of the members of converted pairs is a de­rived word?

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   What do you understand by the term «shortening»? 2. Why can't we say that shortening is a derivational word-formation? 3. What distinction is made between abbrevia­tions and clippings. 4. What is the classification of clip­pings? 5. What is the peculiarity of shortened words? 6. What is the difference between the clipping and the original word? 7. What is the homonymy of abbreviations? 8. What do you understand by the term sound-interchange? 9. What is the distinction between vowel-interchange and consonantinterchange? 10. What is understood by the term «backformation?» 11. What is the peculiarity of blending as a means of word-formation?
   

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