Answer the following questions: 1. What kinds of borrowed words do you know? 2. What are borrowings
proper? 3. What are translation loans? 4. What are the semantic loans? 5. How many
meanings does the borrowed word bring into the adopting language? 6. What is the
assimilation of a borrowed word? 7. What is a phonetic assimilation? 8. What is a
grammatical assimilation? 9. What is. a lexical assimilation? 10. What is the degree
of assimilation of a borrowed word? 11. What are etymological doublets?
Answer the following questions. 1 . What is the source of borrowings? 2. What is the origin of borrowings? 3.
How do we classify the borrowed words according to their sources? 4. What is the
influence of borrowings on the vocabulary of the English language? 5. What is the
influence of borrowings on the morphological structure of the English language? 6.
What pronouns and numerals has the English language adopted from other
languages? 7. What is the influence of borrowings on the phonetic structure of the
English language? 8. What diphthongs appeared in English as a result of French
borrowings?
Answer the following questions. 1. What does lexicography study? 2. When was the first English dictionary
published? 3. When did other dictionaries appear? 4. What types of dictionaries do
you know? 5. What do the general dictionaries present? 6. What do the translation
dictionaries contain? 7. What is the aim of a learner's dictionary? 8. What information
do the specialized dictionaries give us. 9. What is the selection of words in
compiling dictionaries? 10. What does the entry of a word in the dictionary contain?
11. What is the structure of dictionaries? 12. What are the attitudes towards
dictionary? 12. What are the main problems in compiling dictionary
Answer the following questions. 1. In what countries is the English language spoken? 2. As a result of what
event has the English language become the state language of different countries in
Asia and in Africa ? 3. What are the different opinions to the English language
in the USA ? 4. What are the phonetic differences between English in Great Britain
and in the USA ? 5. What are the grammatical differences of English in Great Britain
and in the USA . 6. What are the lexical differences of English in Great Britain and in
the USA ? 7. What are the differences of English words in their usage in two
countries? 8. What are the semantic differences of English words in Great Britain and
in the USA ? 9. When is the American Continent found? 10. What are the main
causes of lexical distinctions of the two variants of English?