Linas Selmistraitis SeminarS in engliSh lexicology. SemanticS

pretty bad way. it just gave me a bit of a shock.”

Fiona  said:  “I’m  sorry.  This  is  a  terrible  way  to  start  the  New 

Year” (J. C.).

exeRCIse 3.

Ascribe the words to their lexico-grammatical classes. Note that 

one and the same word can belong to different classes. 

Part .1

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Affect, back, carry, collocation, draw, dream, eager, fair, finger, 

go, hatred, just, icon, idol, kneel, linger, miniature, nausea, oral, 

premeditated, settings, standing, still, tricolour, whoever, yet.  

exeRCIse 4. 

Arrange  the  following  words  into  three  lexico-semantic  fields. 

Give the name to these fields. 

Affection,  back,  backbone,  chest,  curriculum,  calf,  calmness, 

chin,  colleague,  contentment,  delight,  dictionary,  drill,  elbow, 

empathy,  eyelash,  exhilaration,  faculty,  fee,  forehead,  frustra-

tion, heel, ignorance, indignation, jealousy, journal, knee, knuck-

le, lecturer, limb, malice, master, notebook, palm, professor, pas-

sion, pedagogy, postgraduate, principle, rapture, relief, sadness, 

scholar, schooling, seminar, session, smattering, staff, sympathy, 

syllabus,  syntax,  temple,  tenderness,  thigh,  thumb,  toe,  tutor, 

university, unrest, wrath, zeal.

exeRCIse 5.

Following are two sets of words with 1) ‘hair’ and 2) ‘head’ as 

their semantic nuclei (or one of them). Classify the words accord-

ing to their parts of speech, stylistic, morphological, etc. charac-

teristics.

1.  Hairbrush, haircloth, haircut, hairdo, hairdresser, hairdryer, 

hairgrip,  hairless,  hairline,  hairnet,  hairpiece,  hair-raising, 

hair-splitting, hairspray, hairy, hairiness, hairdressing.   

2.  Headache,  headband,  headbang,  headboard,  headcase, 

headed, header, headfirst, headgear, headhunter, headlight, 

headline, headlong, headmaster, headman, head-on, head-

The .word .and .its .characteristics . .Componential .analysis . .Semantic .field

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piece,  headquartered,  headstone,  head-to-head,  headway, 

headword, heady. 

exeRCIse 6. 

Carry  out  the  componential  analysis  of  the  following  sets  of 

words.

1.  Coffee, juice, tea, lemonade, milk, petrol, water.

2.  Lake, pond, river, sea, swimming pool, ocean.

3.  Chop, cut, tear, smash, slash.

4.  Cottage, mansion, palace, bungalow, villa, house.

5.  Ship, boat, barge, canoe, steamer, ferry, submarine. 

exeRCIse 7. 

Provide your own examples of semantically related sets of words 

for componential analysis. Carry out the componential analysis 

of 5 different sets, each consisting of at least 6 members.  

exeRCIse 8.

Group the following words into associative fields. Give the name 

to the field.  

Acquisition, bat, bucket, challenge, coach, course, development, 

dig, draw, fertilisers, fans, goal, grow, irrigation, jump, lawn, lux-

uriant, mastery, match, outrun, overrun, participate, pitch, race, 

score, spade, team, test,  weed, whistle.

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exeRCIse 9. 

Suggest the words that can be included in a semantic field of ‘li-

brary’. Arrange the words

 

within the field, if possible. 

exeRCIse 10.

Which of the following words are semantically related with the 

nouns ‘book’, ‘education’, and ‘sport’. Provide collocations.

After-school, amateur, approach, assessment, audio, basic, bet-

ting, bilingual, bind, branch, channel, clothing, college, competi-

tive,  compulsory,  conflict,  cover,  culmination,  establishment, 

event, facilities, forthcoming, ground, leaves, marketing, nutri-

tion, online, part-time, pedagogy, plot, promote, proofread, pur-

sue, reviewer, single-sex, smart, tertiary, test, thick, title, venue, 

vocational, well-rounded.

exeRCIse 11.

Find the markers joining the meanings of polysemantic words.