Week 1 – introduction

Question 1

Synchronic vs. diachronic view

Answer 1

Synchronic – vocab at a given stage of its development
Diachronic – evolution of vocab in the course of time

Question 2

Scope of word-formation

Answer 2

= current principles and rules governing the productive formation of both
1. established words
2. unestablished words (neologisms + nonce words)

Question 3

Constituents of word-formation

Answer 3

morpheme, affix, root, base, stem, combining form

Question 4

Classification of morphemes

Answer 4

A) lexical (semantic)
B) grammatical (functional)

Question 5

Grammatical morphemes (division)

Answer 5

1. free – function words (the, and, to)
2. bound (inflectional) – affixes expressing grammatical categories (-ed, -ing, -s)

Question 6

Lexical morphemes (division)

Answer 6

1. free – stems, roots
2. bound – affixes (prefixes, suffixes, blocked; [cran]berry)

Question 7

What is lexical semantics concerned with?

Answer 7

word meaning + sense relations b/w words

Question 8

What is semasiology?

Answer 8

form > meaning

Given lexical item Y, what does it express?

Primary concern: homonymy, polysemy

Question 9

Onomasiology

Answer 9

meaning > form

Given concept X, what lexical items can it be expressed with?

Primary concern: synonymy

Question 10

Word – attributes

Answer 10

1. must possess both FORM and CONTENT
2. isolatable in text, movable in a sentence
3. is language specific

Question 11

Lexical x grammatical word

Answer 11

lexical: full/content W (nouns, verbs, adj., adv.)
grammatical: function W (auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, determiners, pronouns, particles)