Microsoft Word lexicologiya o'UM. doc

 
PRACTICAL SESSION 7
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 DICTIONARY COMPILING AND ITS ORIGIN 
 
1. Give account of the origin and development of British and American lexicography.
2. Point out different types of English dictionaries.
3. Discuss the contents and structure of an entry in explanatory dictionaries.
4. Discuss the traditions to consider the lexicographer as a linguistic legislator and as 
the objective recorder of the language.
5. Discuss the relation between lexicography and Lexicology.
6. Describe the problems the dictionary-maker faces in presenting word-meanings.
7. Discuss the presentation of etymology in dictionaries.
8. Describe the encyclopedic material American dictionaries often contain.
9. Discuss the use of dictionaries in language learning. 
 
 

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Answer the following questions.
1. What is the subject-matter of Lexicology? 2. What types of Lexicology do 
you know? 3. What is the difference between general and special Lexicology? 4. 
What is the difference between descriptive and historical Lexicology? 5. What is the 
difference between comparative and noncomparative Lexicology? 6. What can you 
say about the connection of Lexicology with other aspects of the language? 7. How is 
Lexicology connected with grammar (phonetics, stylistics, history of the language)? 
8. What are the main relationships between the words? 9. What is the difference 
between the paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships in words? 10. What do 
you know about diachronic and synchronic approaches to the study of the vocabulary 
of the language? 11. What are the methods of linguistic analysis used in Modern 
Lexicology? 12. What are the main subdivisions of Lexicology? 13. What is the word 
study?