What does Lexicology, a branch of linguistics study?

Words opposite in meaning are called…

1. 
   antonyms
   
2. 
   synonyms
   
3. 
   homonyms
   
4. 
   polysemantic words
   

What does lexicography study? theory and practice of dictionary compiling the semantic of a word dialect forms of words word-building

What is the largest group of borrowings in English? French Greek Italian Spanish

The most general term in a synonymic group is called: the synonymic dominant the synonymic head synonymic invariant synonymic group

By borrowing (or loan-word) we mean a word which came ... into the vocabulary of one language from another language. into the vocabulary of many languages from one language. into the stock of words of different languages from any foreign language. into the vocabulary of one language from 2 or 3 other languages.

Words that have different forms but meanings similar to a certain degree are called… synonyms antonyms homonyms polysemantic words

What does the term “homonyms proper” denote? words identical in pronunciation and spelling words identical in meaning words identical in spelling only words identical in pronunciation

The object of Historical Lexicology is … . it studies the evolution of the vocabulary it studies the correlation between the vocabularies of two languages it studies vocabulary at a certain time of its development it studies the difference between the vocabularies of two languages

What does semantics study? meanings of words history of words sound forms of words word concessions

The conversion, derivation and composition are ... . the productive ways of word-building. the productive ways of producing new words. the productive ways of forming new meanings. the productive ways of developing the language.

The process of affixation consists in coining a new word by ... . adding an affix to some root. adding a suffix to some root. adding a stem to some root. adding some endings to some root.

Today the suffixes -ard (drunkard), -th (length, heigth) are: non-productive productive semi-productive dead

A word which belongs to the original English stock is… a native word a loan word assimilation of a loan a semantic loan

There are the following types of shortening: … . ellipsis, acronyms, blendings, clippings clippings, lexicalization, ellipsis, substantivization blendings, ellipsis, acronyms, semantic extension clipping, semantic extension, blending

The major types of semantic relations of lexical units are … . compatibility, incompatibility, inclusion syntagmatic, paradigmatic inclusion, hyponymy hyponymy, meronymy, serial relations

Words are divisible into… morphemes affixes allomorphs derivatives

What do we call a notion or an actually existing individual thing to which reference is made? denotatum (referent) semantic component meaning connotation

Extension of word’s meaning is … . the application of a word to a wider variety of referents a process when a word with a new meaning comes to be used in the specialized vocabulary of some limited group the acquisition by a word of some derogatory emotive charge the acquisition by a word of pejorative meaning

Words from other languages used by English people in conversation or in writing but not assimilated in any way are: barbarisms completely assimilated words