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Exercise#2. Fill the table: Hand vs. arm, foot vs. leg, finger vs. toe in English, Russian and Uzbek.
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Exercise#3. As you know, a loan word taken over from another proper language can be modified in phonetic shape, spelling, paradigm or meaning according to the standards of the language. Give examples.
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Seminar #10
Typology of lexical level of English, Uzbek and Native
Languages

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Exercise#l. Round table discussion. Divide into four groups and discuss these problems in groups. In 10 minutes present your topic, after all, they make anoverall conclusion.
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Exercise#2. Discuss the following questions in mini groups.
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Exercise#3.a. Look at the questions in the chart about ways of word formation in English, Russian and Uzbek languages. Write your answers first in the YOU column.
3b. Interview your partner and write his/her answers in your partner column. 3c. compare your answers with your partner's answers.
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Exercise#!. Look at the text about similarities and differences of word - formation in compared languages. There are 12 mistakes in it. Find them and replace them with the correct words from the box below.
9.origin 3. independent 1.prefixing 5.bound 7.negative

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   full
   

8. repetition or reversal 4. proper 6.semi-bound lO.prefixes
The main similarity of forming words is having the way of affixing in all compared languages. And all of them have the subtypes, such as 1.borrowing (prefixing), suffixing and prefix-suffix. For example, English prefixes are such particles that can be prefixed to 2.separate(full) words and it is mostly characteristic for forming verbs. Prefixes can be considered more 3.dependent (independent) than suffixes in English. They can be classified according to the


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nature of words in which they are used: prefixes used in notional and functional words. Prefixes used in notional words are. 4.irrelevant (proper) prefixes which are 5.semi-bound (bound) morphemes, e.g. re- (rewrite). Prefixes used in functional words are 6.bound (semi-bound)morphemes because they are met in the language as words, e.g. over- (overprotected) (cf. over the book).
Prefixes can be classified according to different principles:

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   Semantic classification:
   

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   prefixes of 7.positive(negative) meaning, such as : in- (invaluable), non- (non- morphological), un- (unhappy) etc.
   
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   prefixes denoting 8.planned (repetition or reversal) actions, such as: de- (deregulate), re- (redo), dis- (disappear).
   
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   prefixes denoting time, space, degree relations, such as: inter- (international) , hyper- (hypertension), ex- (ex-friend), pre- (pre-reading), over- (overhead) etc. 2.9.Usage (origin) of prefixes can be classified as follows:
   

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   native (Germanic), such as: un-, over-, under- etc.
   
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   Romanic, such as : in-, de-, ex-, re- etc.
   
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   Greek, such assym-, hyper- etc.
   

Besides, there are a lot of borrowed lO.suffixes (prefixes) in English:
Auto-, Demi-, Mono-, Multi-, Semi-, Post-;