Uzbekistan state world languages university

Exercise#l. Work in two small groups. Discuss the following question.
Clarify the terms “semantic typology” and “lexical typology”


Exercise#2, Fill the chart below. What branches of lexical typology do you know?


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Go round the class and compare your list with other classmates.
Exercise#3. Explain with your own words following terms to your classmates.


Phonetic typology Phonological typology Morphological typology Syntactic typo.logy Lexical typology


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Kxorcise#4. Discuss the following questions in class.

1. 
   Mow can you define the main unit oflexical level?
   
2. 
   Mowcan a word be distinguished in all languages?
   
3. 
   What can be understood in the terms of hyperonyms and hyponyms?
   
4. 
   Mow can words be subdivided according to meaning?
   
5. 
   What kind of types of a word can be found in compared languages?
   

Kxercisc#8. Match the terms with their definitions.

1. 
   Simple words
   
2. 
   Derived words
   
3. 
   Compound words
   
4. 
   Compound-derived words
   

1. 
   consist of two or more root morphemes, one or more affixes and an inflexion, e.g. “a stay-slim diet’% “an out-of-town performance”, “do-it-yourself principle”.
   
2. 
   consist of one root morpheme and an inflexion (in many cases the inflexion is zero), e.g. “red”, “ask”, “leg”;
   
3. 
   consist of one root morpheme, one or several affixes and an inflexion, e.g. “ aimless”, “unemployed”, “disbelief’;
   
4. 
   consist of two or more root morphemes and an inflexion, e.g. “foreign- made”, “red-haired”, “to daydream”;
   

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