Посібник включає понад 150 вправ з усіх основних розділів курсу лексикології сучасної англійської мови. Розраховано на студентів факультетів іноземних мов вищих навчальних закладів України. CONTENTS PREFACE 5 PART I. ETYMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MODERN ENGLISH VOCABULARY 6 PART 2. MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH WORDS .. 18 PARTS 3. WORD-FORMATION 23 Affixation 23 Compounding (composition) 28 Reduplication 37 Phrasal verbs 38 Conversion 40 Substantivation 44 Adjectivization 46 Phrasal Nouns 46 Shortening 48 Abbreviation 49 Back-Formation (Reversion) 51 Blending 52 Minor types of word-formation 53 Change of Stress 53 Sound Interchange (Gradation) 54 Sound Imitation (Onomatopoeia) 54 Lexicalization of the Plural of Nouns 56 Revision exercises 56 PART 4. SEMASIOLOGY 58 Lexical Meaning and Semantic Structure of English Words 58 Change of Meaning 66 Transference of Names Resulting from Tropes 70 Semantic Groups of Words 74 Euphemisms 80 Antonyms 81 Homonyms 82 Paronyms 88 Semantic Relations in Paradigmatics. Semantic Fields 89 Hyponymy 89 Functional Semantic Classes 90 PART 5. ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGY 94 Classification of Phraseological Units 94 Semantic Relations in Phraseology 102 PART 6. STYLISTIC DIFFERENTIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS... 107 Literary-Bookish Words 107 Colloquial Words 114 PART 7. DIALECTS AND VARIANTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 122