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Lecture 3 
Questions and assignments:
 
1. 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 consonant—interchange? 10. What is understood by the term 
«backfor-mation?» 11. What is the peculiarity of blending as a means of word -
formation? 12. What is a splinter?
 
Lecture 4 
Questions and assignments: 
 
1.
How do we analyse homonyms?
2.
What is the difference between homonymy and polysemy?
3.
What is understood by the term «synonym»?
4.
Are there complete synonyms in English?
5.
Can polysemantic words have the same synonyms in all their meanings?
6.
What is the dominant of a synonymic group?
7.
What is the difference between ideographic synonyms and stylistic ones? 
 
Lecture 5 
Questions and assignments: 
1.
What is the ideomaticity of phraseological units?
2.
Why does prof. A.I. Smirnitsky say that phraseological units are the word 
equivalents?
3.
Why do we include proverbs, sayings quotations in phraseological units? What is 
the history of phraseological units?
4.
What kind of discussion of the so-called word groups as «give up» was among the 
linguists?
5.
What is the synonymy of phraseological units?
6.
What is the polysemy of phraseological units?