Test Questions

1. What is the difference between semasiological and onomasiological approach to linguistic phenomena?

2. What is the difference between lexical, grammatical and part-of speech meanings?

3. What is the essence of referential approach to meaning?

4. In what relation does meaning stand to the sound form and to the referent?

5. What is the difference between meaning and concept?

6. What is the difference between meaning and purport (sense)?

7. What aspects of lexical meaning can be singled out?

8. What is the denotational component of lexical meaning?

9. What is the connotational component of lexical meaning?

10. What are the main types of lexical meanings?

11. What is the componential analysis applied for?

12. What is an integral / differential seme?

Tasks and assignments

1. Prove that meaning is not identical with notion applying to the linguistic facts:

1) рука – arm, hand, wrist; нога – foot, leg; floor – пол, этаж; cry – кричать, плакать;

2) Kate, Smith, he, this, seven;

3) daddy – father; kid – child;

4) child, baby, babe, infant;

5) fall ill, catch cold, be sick, be unwell;

6) high building, tall man.

2. Speak on the correlation of meaning and referent using the following linguistic facts:

1) cat, animal, pussy, Tom, this, pet;

2) fine weather, fine threads;

3) elf, goblin;

4) love, hate;

5) ah, aha, ahem, alas, hell, hey, hush, oh, ooh, oops, ow, ugh, uh-huh, well, wow.

3.* What unites the following words:

a) lexical meaning;

b) grammatical meaning;

c) lexical meaning and grammatical meaning;

D) part-of-speech (integral) meaning?

1. overstressed, overworked, overbid, overcast;

2. cherish, value, love;

3. oxen, feet, media, radii, kine, dogs, octopuses, beeves;

4. buy, sell, money, price, expensive.