A COURSE IN MODERN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY

1 R. S. Ginzburg , S. S. Khidekel, G. Y. Knyazeva, A. A. Sankin A COURSE IN MODERN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY SECOND EDITION Revised and Enlarged Допущено Министерством высшего и среднего специального образования СССР в качестве учебника для студентов институтов и факультетов иностранных языков Сканирование, распознавание, проверка: Аркадий Куракин (ark # mksat. net), окт-2004. Орфография унифицирована к британской. Для некоммерческого использования. MOSCOW VYS AJA KOLA 1979 ББК Англ Л 43 Рецензент: кафедра английской филологии Ленинградского государ-ственного педагогического института им.

2 А. А. Герцена Л 43 Лексикология английского языка: Учебник для ин-тов и фак. иностр. яз./Р. 3. Гинзбург, С. С. Хидекель, Г. Ю. Князева и А. А. Санкин. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. М.: Высш. школа, 1979. 269 с, ил., табл. Список рек. лит. В пер.: 1 р. 00 к. Данная книга является вторым изданием учебника по лекси-кологии тех же авторов, вышедшего впервые в 1966 г. В учебнике нашли отражение такие вопросы лексикологии, как семасиология, структура слова, словосложение и словообра-зование, словосочетания и фразеологические единицы, этимоло-гия словарного состава английского языка, основы английской лексикографии и др.

3 Второе издание дополнено разделом Методы лексикологи-ческого исследования , значительно расширен раздел Лексико-графия и др. Учебник предназначается для студентов институтов и фа-культетов иностранных языков. 4602010000 ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ВЫСШАЯ ШКОЛА , 1979 ББК Англ 4И (Англ) PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION This book makes no pretension to deal with the whole vast field of Eng-lish LEXICOLOGY . It has a more limited aim, to assist the students of foreign language institutes and departments in their study of the fundamentals of MODERN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY .

4 Post-graduates specialising in ENGLISH and teachers of ENGLISH may also find it useful. This book is, as its title implies, concerned only with the vocabulary of ENGLISH as it exists and functions at the present time. The authors* major concern is, therefore, with the treatment of the problems inherent in a COURSE of LEXICOLOGY mainly from the synchronic angle. The diachronic approach which is, in the authors opinion, indispensable in any study of vocabulary occupies its due place in the book too. The book is based on the COURSE of lectures in ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY deliv-ered by the authors for a number of years at the Moscow Maurice Thorez State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.

5 The subject matter corre-sponds to the programme on ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY issued by the USSR Minis-try of Higher and Secondary Special Education. In preparing this work the authors have tried to take into consideration the latest achievements in linguistic science made in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. The authors indebtedness to various books and studies will be readily perceived from List of Books Extensively Used as well as from the authors quoted or referred to in the foot-notes. The factual material collected in some of the best graduation papers compiled under the authors guidance has also been made use of.

6 The work of preparing the separate parts of the COURSE has been distrib-uted among the authors as follows: 1. Introduction A. A. Sankin 2. Varieties of ENGLISH G. Y. Knyaseva 3. Semasiology R. S. Ginzburg 4. Word-Groups and Phraseological Units R. S. Ginzburg 5. Word-Structure S. S. Khidekel and A. A. Sankin 6. Word-Formation: affixation, conversion, shortening of words and minor ways of word-forming A. A. Sankin Word-Composition S. S. Khidekel 7. Etymological Survey of ENGLISH Vocabulary G. Y. Knyazeva 8.

7 Conclusion R. S. Ginzburg and S. S. Khidekel 9. Fundamentals of ENGLISH Lexicography: Number of Vocabulary Units in ENGLISH R. S. Ginzburg Main Types of ENGLISH Dictionaries G. Y. Knyazeva The authors owe a great debt to a number of their colleagues from the Chair of ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY and Stylistics who offered them advice on one or another portion of the book. The authors are highly indebted to E. M. Mednikova who read an earlier version in its entirety and made many ex-tremely valuable suggestions aimed at improving the treatment of the subject and the arrangement of the material.

8 Warm thanks are also due to E. M. Le-bedinskaya who was especially helpful during later stages of the work. But, of COURSE , no helpers, named or unnamed, are responsible for the blemishes that nevertheless remain. The authors will welcome any comment and criticism that will help to improve the book. The Authors PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The first edition of this book has been used in the classroom for over ten years. Since the first publication of A COURSE in MODERN ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY there has been considerable progress in linguistic studies and the authors ideas about some points have changed.

9 So some chapters had to be revised or modified. The authors also found it necessary to introduce a special chapter on the procedures and methods of lexicological analysis written by R. S. Ginzburg, replace Conclusion by the chapter Various Aspects of Vocabulary Units and Replenishment of MODERN ENGLISH Word-Stock written by R. S. Ginzburg and S. S. Khidekel and also to enlarge the chapter on lexicography. The work of preparing the separate parts of the present edition has been distributed among the authors as follows: I.

10 Introduction A. A. Sankin II. Se-masiology R. S. Ginzburg III. Word-Groups and Phraseological Units R. S. Ginzburg IV. Word-Structure S. S. Khidekel and A. A. Sankin V. Word-Formation A. A. Sankin Word-Composition S. S. Khidekel VI. Etymological Survey of the ENGLISH Word-Stock G. Y. Knyazeva VIL Various Aspects of Vocabulary Units and Replenishment of MODERN ENGLISH Word-Stock R. S. Ginzburg, S. S. Khidekel VIII. Variants and dialects of the ENGLISH Language G. Y. Knyazeva IX. Fundamentals of ENGLISH Lexicography G.