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    Đề cương thi môn ngữ nghĩa học

    Chapter 1
    • What are the subject matters of lexicology?
    • What are the tasks of lexicology?
    • How to distinguish between word and vocabulary.
    • Present your knowledge about the principal branches of lexicology.
    • Present your knowledge about the types of lexicology.
    • Why is lexicology studied and its significance?
    • The relationship between phonology & lexicology.
    • The relationship between grammar & lexicology.
    • The relationship between stylistics & lexicology.
    • Present your knowledge about the growth of the English vocabulary and the reasons for
    that growth.
    • Present your knowledge about the basic stock of words and its characteristics.
    Chapter 2
    • Styles
    Informal style
    Colloquial words
    Slang
    Dialectisms
    Vulgarisms
    Formal style
    Learned words
    Archaic and poetic words
    Technical terms
    Barbarisms
    • British and American variants of the English Language.
    Variation in pronunciation
    Variation in spelling
    Variation in grammar
    Variation in vocabulary
    • Classify the following words into suitable kinds of word.
    exam
    to make up
    snack
    to turn in
    mob
    sky pilot
    brass
    sum mat
    hell !
    damn it !
    assist
    solitude
    anorexia
    to begin
    a’ la mode
    kirk
    matine’e
    crummy
    thee
    labialization
    morn
    errant
    cop
    baccy
    chick
    perspire
    urination
    endeavor
    approximately
    billow
    hapless
    glottal stop
    chip
    • Present your knowledge about British and American Variation in pronunciation of the
    English Language.
    • Present your knowledge about British and American Variation in spelling of the English
    Language.
    • Present your knowledge about British and American Variation in grammar of the English
    Language.
    • Present your knowledge about British and American Variation in vocabulary of the
    English Language.

    Write down the missing British or American words.


    BE
    AE
    apartment
    note
    motorway
    chimney
    handbag
    undershirt
    kerosine
    rubber
    aerial
    bandage

    BE
    AE
    label
    lorry
    cinema
    chemist
    goods
    football
    inverted comma
    dustbin
    toilet
    Chapter 3
    Word structure
    •
    ○ Morpheme
    ○ Types of morpheme
    ○ Word formation
    • Affixation
    Compounding
    Shortening
    Conversion
    Sound and stress interchange
    • How to distinguish between compounds and free word groups? Give examples to support
    your answer.
    • Shortly present your knowledge about the morpheme in English.
    • Demonstrate that elements as “beautiful”, “house” and “talk” are words.
    • Shortly present your knowledge about word formation in English by Affixation.
    • Shortly present your knowledge about word formation in English by Compounding
    • Shortly present your knowledge about word formation in English by Shortly present your
    knowledge about word formation in English by Shortening
    .

    Shortly present your knowledge about word formation in English by Shortly present your
    knowledge about word formation in English by Sound and Stress interchange.

    State the types of shortening: B.A, UNESCO, IMF, ICO, prep, air con, pop, fridge, ad, I.O.U, V-
    day, sis, brunch, motel, prof, perm
    How many morphemes are there in the following sentences and what kinds of morphemes are
    they?
    To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness in the world.

    “Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of
    time. Drop a grain of wheat into the ground and – lo! – a mystery.”

    “ We have had nuclear weapons for over 50 years and that could destroy the world, but we
    haven’t used them to do it and this is surely the greatest wonder of all.

    If he’s at home on the weekend, he and his wife sometimes play golf, but that doesn’t happen
    very often.

    America made California an American state in 1850, two years after winning it from Mexico in
    the Mexican-American War.

    Hollywood Boulevard has the names of more than 2,500 film stars on stars in the sidewalk on its
    five-and-a-half kilometer Walk of Fame.

    “ That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
    Chapter 4
    1. Define as many as possible the meanings of the following words:
    a. mean
    b. kind
    c. bank
    d. match
    e. light
    f. dull

    Give your own examples to illustrate your ideas.


    2. Semantic groups of words
    Homonyms
    Synonyms
    Antonyms
    3. Present your understanding about classification of homonyms.
    4. Present your understanding about classification of Synonyms.
    5. Present your understanding about classification of antonyms

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