Intermediate Testpaper ( English Lexicology) sem 6, gr.

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NAME Chira Eugenia DATE 15.04.2020

Concentrate on the following questions and answer:

1. Which words do we call homonyms?
The homonymous words are called those that sound equal in size, yes they have
nothing in common.
2. What is the traditional classification of homonyms? Illustrate your answer with examples.
The names are classified into 3 types:
The lexical homonyms are those that have the same morphological class, in a different
sense:
frog - noun, with the meaning of amphibian;
frog - noun, with the meaning of mechanism.
Grammar homonymshave the same meaning, the same part of speech, but different
people:
wine - verb, present tense, person I, singular number;
wine - verb, the present tense, the third person, the plural number.
Lexicon-grammatical homonyms have a different morphological class but a different
meaning:
salt - noun, with the meaning of food;
salt - verb, meaning to jump
3. Which word in a synonymic group is considered to be the dominant synonym? What are
its characteristic features?
The dominant synonym is that synonym that can replace any other secondary synonym in the
list of synonyms with which it is itself a synonym. Being a general, abstract synonym, which can
be replaced by any of the synonyms.

4. Can the dominant synonym be substituted for certain other members of a group of
synonyms? Is the criterion of interchangeabitity applicable in this case.

I think the dominant synonym can be replaced and in the example we have it can be replaced.

5. State the difference between the idiographic and stylistic synonyms. Give examples
Ideographic synonyms differ in shades of values (key - bow: key - the source where the
water hits with pressure, spring - water leaks; semantic synonyms may indicate a different degree
of manifestation of a sign or action: to run and run. stylistic synonyms differ in their style, ie
used in different functional styles of speech.For example, eye-eye, beauty-beauty synonyms
differ from each other only in a stylistic sense: the first words are stylistically neutral, the second
are books In a synonymous series run - run, run, the first word is stylistically neutral, the last are
colloquial.

6. What is the difference between homonymy and polysemy?

Theoretically, the difference seems obvious. Homonyms are two (or more words) that,
incidentally, have the same form (same sound body), but have totally different meanings. The
word polysemantic is a word that has several related meanings. I repeat, ruin yourself.
Basically, sometimes it is harder to say whether we are dealing with two different words or only
one, with more related meanings.
7. Explain “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” Use 5
homonyms and 5 paronyms in your essay. Underline them.
We are the ones who act in response to those we say. We always find ourselves in an absolutely
difficult action, we give ourselves to an abbey from the question that was not told us, in
advance we say at least what we think, an abstraction that is not related to the new question.
Answering minimally, right we spend little time depending on the one who did not ask the
question.