Лексикология английского языка. Иванова Н.К. - 11 стр.

                                  ЗАДАНИЯ К СЕМИНАРУ 1
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1) Fill in the proper word. Translate, pay attention to the suffix.

1. true/truthful
This play is based on a ________ story.
I believe her: I think, she is a __________ person.
2. childish/childlike
You can’t have everything you want: don’t be so __________.
She has a _____________ quality, a sort of innocence, which I like.
3. young/youthful
Our teacher is full of ____________ enthusiasm for her subject.
Enjoy yourself while you are still ___________
4. uneatable/inedible
This meat is so tough that I find it ______________.
Some of the ___________ varieties of fungus are poisonous.
5. unreadable/illegible
The inscription was ____________, but I recognized it as Latin.
War and Peace may be a good novel, but I find it ______________.
6. historic/historical
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is a ______________ monument.
The library contains a copy of Magna Carta and other __________documents.


2) Affixes

     What is a prefix ? Find three examples of prefixes from the text on non-standard English.
     What is a suffix ? Find seven examples of suffixes in the text.
     What parts of speech do they indicate ?
     Study the table. What are the prefixes used in the words in the table ?
     What meaning do they add to the root of the word ?
     Write your own examples.

       Prescriptivism is the view that one variety of language has an inherently higher value than
others, and that this ought to be imposed on the whole of the speech community. It is an
authoritarian view propounded especially in relation to grammar. The favoured variety is usually a
version of the standard written language, especially as encountered in literature, or in the formal
spoken language, which most closely reflects literary style and is presented in dictionaries,
grammars and other official manuals. Those who speak and write in this variety are said to be using
language “correctly”; those who do not are said to be using it “incorrectly”.
       The alternative to prescriptive approach is the descriptive approach associated mainly with
modern linguistics. As the name suggests, its main aim is to describe and explain the patterns of
usage which are found in all varieties of the language, whether they are socially prestigious or not.
The approach recognizes the fact that language is always changing and that there will accordingly
always be variations in usage. Linguists do not deny the importance of the standard language, but
they do not condemn as “ugly’, “incorrect” or “illogical” other dialects which do not share the same
rules.
        (From Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language)