Uzbek state world languages university

Task 2. Analyse the given text according to the following scheme:

Scheme of the lexicological analysis of the English Text

I. Define the general choice of the vocabulary in connection with the style of the text and its language (formal/informal, literary, bookish, colloquial, dialogue, monologue, etc.).

2. Write out 5 longest words from the text. Analyse their morphological structure (root, non-root, free, bound, derivational and inflectional types of morphemes). Provide examples of simple, derived, compound and compound-derived stems, if any.

3. Write out words formed by affixation, and comment on the types of affixes used (suffix, prefix, productive or non-productive, native, borrowed, etc).

4. Find conversion in the text. Explain the difference in the meanings of converted member. Give your own versions of converted pairs of used words.

5. Write out compound words and define their motivation degree.

6. Find shortenings, if there are any, comment of the type and meaning.

7. Find words formed by minor types of word-formation, such as blending, back-formation, sound and stress interchange, etc.

8. Write out 3 polysemantic words from the text ( a noun, a verb and an adjective), give their semantic structure and explain in which of their lexico-semantic variants they are used in the text.

9. Find cases of metaphoric or metonymic transference of words, analyse the result of the semantic change (generalisation, specialisation, pejoration or amelioration).

10. Write out synonyms from the text and indicate the difference between them. Analyse them according to their classes (ideographic or stylistic synonyms; contextual synonyms, synonymic dominant). Check if there are word families or clusters in the given text.

11. Write out antonyms from the text, make their classification (contraries, contradictories, root and derivational antonyms).

12. Write out homonyms from the text, make their classification (homophones, homographs, grammatical and lexico-grammatical homonyms, paronyms, etc.).

13. Write out neologisms, archaisms, nonce-words, euphemisms, borrowings, internationalisms, etc., if used in the text.

14. Write out set expressions and idioms from the text, provide their types (fusions, unities, collocations). Write out proverbs and sayings from the text, if any, and explain their function.

15. Provide the etymological analysis of 5 native and 5 borrowed words at your own choice.

16. Give your opinion of the text, say what you liked or disliked about it.