The structure of words and word-building. The semantic structure of words, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms. Word combinations and phraseology in modern English and Ukrainian languages. The Native Element, Borrowed Words, characteristics of the vocabulary.
Аннотация к работе
Навчальний посібник для студентів III курсу факультету лінгвістики. A word has at least one lexical morpheme represented by a root by which we mean the ultimate constituent element which remains after the removal of affixes and it does not admit any further analysis. In the Ukrainian language the most productive is the prefix не-, which is used to form adjectives and nouns, but never verbs: нелегкий, невільний. A very productive prefix is the prefix без-: безпомічний. A similar homonymy resulted in the borrowing from French of pairs of words of the same root but belonging in French to different parts of speech. Semantically the bahuvrihi are almost invariably characterised by a depreciative, ironical, emotional tone. In the English language there are many words which were compounds though just now they are not treated as such: window (vind auga), daisy (day’s eye), always (all way s), woman (wif man), breakfast (break fast).