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What does lexicography study?
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theory and practice of dictionary compiling
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the semantic of a word
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dialect forms of words
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word-building
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What is the largest group of borrowings in English?
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French
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Greek
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Italian
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Spanish
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The most general term in a synonymic group is called:
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the synonymic dominant
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the synonymic head
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synonymic invariant
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synonymic group
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By borrowing (or loan-word) we mean a word which came ...
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into the vocabulary of one language from another language.
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into the vocabulary of many languages from one language.
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into the stock of words of different languages from any foreign language.
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into the vocabulary of one language from 2 or 3 other languages.
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Words that have different forms but meanings similar to a certain degree are called…
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synonyms
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antonyms
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homonyms
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polysemantic words
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What does the term “homonyms proper” denote?
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words identical in pronunciation and spelling
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words identical in meaning
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words identical in spelling only
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words identical in pronunciation
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The object of Historical Lexicology is … .
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it studies the evolution of the vocabulary
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it studies the correlation between the vocabularies of two languages
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it studies vocabulary at a certain time of its development
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it studies the difference between the vocabularies of two languages
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What does semantics study?
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meanings of words
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history of words
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sound forms of words
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word concessions
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The conversion, derivation and composition are ... .
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the productive ways of word-building.
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the productive ways of producing new words.
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the productive ways of forming new meanings.
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the productive ways of developing the language.
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The process of affixation consists in coining a new word by ... .
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adding an affix to some root.
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adding a suffix to some root.
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adding a stem to some root.
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adding some endings to some root.
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Today the suffixes -ard (drunkard), -th (length, heigth) are:
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non-productive
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productive
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semi-productive
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dead
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A word which belongs to the original English stock is…
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a native word
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a loan word
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assimilation of a loan
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a semantic loan
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There are the following types of shortening: … .
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ellipsis, acronyms, blendings, clippings
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clippings, lexicalization, ellipsis, substantivization
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blendings, ellipsis, acronyms, semantic extension
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clipping, semantic extension, blending
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The major types of semantic relations of lexical units are … .
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compatibility, incompatibility, inclusion
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syntagmatic, paradigmatic
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inclusion, hyponymy
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hyponymy, meronymy, serial relations
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Words are divisible into…
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morphemes
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affixes
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allomorphs
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derivatives
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What do we call a notion or an actually existing individual thing to which
reference is made?
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denotatum (referent)
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semantic component
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meaning
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connotation
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Extension of word’s meaning is … .
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the application of a word to a wider variety of referents
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a process when a word with a new meaning comes to be used in
the specialized vocabulary of some limited group
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the acquisition by a word of some derogatory emotive charge
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the acquisition by a word of pejorative meaning
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Words from other languages used by English people in conversation or in
writing but not assimilated in any way are:
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barbarisms
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completely assimilated words
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