Учебное пособие в систематизированном виде содержит необходимые для изучения курса лексикологии английского языка вспомогательные материалы: планы семинаров, определения основных понятий и терминов на английском и русском языках, темы курсовых

hydro- (from Greek hydor “water”) - hydrodynamic;
-graph (from Greek -graphos “something written”) - lithograph;
-logy (from Greek ldgos “speech”) - lexicology, etc.
Practical Assignment

1. 
   Determine the number of morphemes in each word.
   

Boxes, children, sheep, theory, half-length, cupboard, arrogance, marve­lously, indifferent, newcomers, good-humouredly, notwithstanding, disintere­stedness, retribalization.

2. 
   Analyze the morphological structure of the underlined words: identify the number of morphemes and their type according to the semantic and struc­tural classifications of morphemes.
   

Model: Suddenly she felt anxious again.
In the word anxious there are 2 morphemes: anxi- is a root, a bound mor­pheme, and -ous is a suffix, a bound morpheme.

1. 
   I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander (Isaac Asimov). 2. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims (Aristotle). 3. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic (O. Wilde). 4. A weak mind is like a microscope that magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones (Earl of Chesterfield). 5. “I know, Penelope”, he said ashamedly (L. Kennedy).
   

6. 
   She sounded uncharacteristically anxious (I. Shaw). 7. She simply sat there, semi-smiling at me (E. Segal). 8. Many a man is bitterly disillusioned after mar­riage when he realizes that his wife cannot solve a quadratic equation (S. Lea­cock). 9. Your history is perfect, like Desiree’s geography (R. Stout). 10. He had not yet taken the measure of this sire of his, who was full of unexpectedness as a girl at her first party (O. Henry).
   

3. 
   Which unit does not belong to the set from the morphological point of view?
   

1. 
   ringlet, leaflet, booklet, hamlet;
   
2. 
   cranberry, elderberry, waxberry;
   
3. 
   locket, pocket, hogget, lionet;
   
4. 
   telegraph, telephone, telethon, telegram.
   

4. 
   Carry out the morphemic analysis and the word-formation analysis of the underlined words.
   

Model: Of course, we are all aware that physical check-ups will not give us the whole story (A. Hailey).
The morphemic analysis: the word check-ups consists of 3 morphemes: check- is a root, a free morpheme, up- is a root, a free morpheme, -s is an inflec­tion, a bound morpheme.
The word-formation analysis: the noun check-ups is built by the two simultaneous processes of word composition and conversion (check up, v -> check-up, n).

1. 
   Warm a tablespoonful of honey over the gas fire and pour it out. 2. She said that I didn’t know how to housekeep. 3. Whatever happened to me, I could not wholeheartedly regret this adventure (Ph. Carr). 4. There was no sound from the group of onlookers ... (R. Stout). 5. Clearly it was impossible to get him away without making a scene, which was unthinkable (R. Stout). 6. He inter­viewed the proprietress, Mrs. Perenna, in her office, a small untidy room with a large desk covered with loose papers (A. Christie). 7. He has done it up all over, and got permission from the Council to re-modernise the kitchen (M. Spark). 8. The silent fury of the stream and the awful blackness maddened me ... (R. Stout). 9. A common mistake that people make when trying to design some­thing completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools (Douglas Adams). 10. A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself (Henry Morgan).
   

Theme 6
AFFIXATION
English has more than a hundred common prefixes and
suffixes -able, -ness, -ment,pre-, dis-, anti-, andSo on -
and with these it can form and re-form words with a facility
that yet again sets it apart from other tongues.