AN40023BA/AN5018MA/AN5302OMA The Science of Words: Lexicology and Phraseology
3rd year BA, Spring2018
Time: Thursday 16:00-17:40
Place: II
Instructor: Cserép Attila
Office hours: Thursday 15:00-16:00 and Friday 15:50-16:50
Office: 1/3
Course aim and material
The aim of the course is to familiarize you with the rudiments of the study of words and word combinations.Word structure and word-formation will be studied with the help of many practical exercises focusing on the analysis of words into meaningful segments. These segments come in various types and forms, and this will be illustrated through the exercises. The topics to be covered include the morpheme, variations in the form of the morpheme, word-formation processes such as derivation, compounding, clipping, blending, etc.,as well as etymology, borrowing, formal and meaning relations between words. Finally, it time permits, we will explore two major types of conventional multiword expressions.
Textbook
Course packets distributed in class. One copy of the course packetis available in the library. Supplementary material can be found on the “Course materials” page at
Requirements and procedures
The lexicology readingscontain brief passages combined with exercises. You are expected to read all the assigned material and do all the exercises based on your reading. Feel free to use dictionaries. Class discussion will focus on the exercises and related passages. In the phraseology part of the course the readings will be discussed in class.
Assessment
Assessment will be based on an in-class mid-term test (50%) and an in-class end-term test (50%) on the topics covered in this course. Please note your level of English proficiency will be as important a determinant of you a final grade as knowledge of the course material.
Week 1 / 15 Febr / WordsCoates: Dividing words up pp 1-6 Exercises 1.1-1.8, Lexical and grammatical morphology pp 19-21 Exercises 3.1-3.4
Week 2 / 22 Febr / Morphemes I
Coates: Lexical and grammatical morphology pp 21-25 Exercises 3.5-3.11, Roots, bases, stems and other structural things pp 27-28 Exercises 4.1-4.4
Week 3 / 1 March / Morphemes II
Coates: Roots, bases, stems and other structural things pp 28-30 Exercises 4.5-4.8, Allomorphy: books with more than one cover pp 62-64 Exercises 9.1-9.4
Week 4 / 8 March / Morphemes III
Coates: Allomorphy: books with more than one cover pp 64-72 Exercises 9.5-9.17
Week 5 / 15 March / HOLIDAY
Week 6 / 22 March / Derivation
Bauer: New words from English 2: derivatives pp 25-29 Exercises 5.1-5.7
Coates: Compound and complex bases pp 37-39 Exercises 5.5-5.10
Week 7 / 29March / Mid-term test
Week 8 / 5 April / CONSULTATION WEEK
Week 9 / 12 April / Compounding
Coates: Compound and complex bases pp 34-37 Exercises 5.1-5.4, Roots, bases, stems and other structural things pp 31-33 Exercises 4.12-4.14
Bauer: New words from English 1: compounds pp 19-24 Exercises 4.1-4.6
Week 10 / 19 April / Other Types of Word-Formation
Coates: Roots, bases, stems and other structural things pp 30-31 Exercises 4.9-4.11, Word-formation by reduction pp 56-60 Exercises 8.1-8.8
Week 11 / 26 April / Borrowing, etymology and meaning change
Bauer: Borrowing pp 14-18 Exercises 3.1-3.4, Where words come from: Etymology pp 50-55 Exercises 10.1-10.8, Words that change their meanings pp5 6-58 Exercises 11.1-11.5
Week 12 / 3 May / End-term testfor final-year students
Week 13 / 10 May / Meaning relationships and formal relationships
Bauer: Meaning relationships pp 30-35 Exercises 6.1-6.8,
Bauer: Formal relationships pp 36-40 Exercises 7.1-7.9
Week 14 / 17 May / End-term
Recommended material:
Bauer, Laurie. 1998. Vocabulary. London and New York: Routledge.
Bauer, Laurie and Rodney Huddleston. 2002. Lexical word-formation. In: Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey K. Pullum. (eds.) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Deignan, Alice. 1995. Collins Cobuild English Guides 7: Metaphor. London: HarperCollins Publishers.
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Katamba, Francis. 2005 (2nd edition). English Words. London and New York: Routledge.
Knowles, Murray and Rosamund Moon. 2006. Introducing Metaphor. London and New York: Routledge.
Kövecses, Zoltán. 2010 (2nd edition). Metaphor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McIntosh, Colin. (ed.) 2013 (4th edition).Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Merriam-Webster’s Advanced Leaner’s English Dictionary. 2008. Springfield: Merriam-Webster Inc.
Peters, Pam. 2004. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rundell, Michael. (ed.) 2007 (2nd edition). Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners. Oxford: Macmillan.
Sinclair, John. 1991. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Stubbs, Michael. 2004. A quantitative approach to collocations. In: Allerton, D. J., Nadja Nesselhauf and Paul Skandera. (eds.) Phraseological Units: Basic Concepts and Their Application. Basel: Schwabe AG. 107–119.
Summers, Della. (ed.) 2014 (6th edition). Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Harlow: Pearson Longman.
Specialized dictionaries:
Ammer, Christine. 2013 (2nd edition). The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Bárdosi, Vilmos. (ed.) 2003. Magyar szólástár. Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó.
Benson, Morton, Evelyn Benson and Robert Ilson. 1997 (2nd revised edition). The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations. (First edition 1986 under the title The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A Guide to Word Combinations.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Clari, Michela. (ed.) 2002. Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms. London: HarperCollins Publishers.
Cowie, Anthony P. and Ronald Mackin. 1993 (2nd edn). Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. (First edition 1975 under the title Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English Vol. 1.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cowie, Anthony P., Ronald Mackin and Isabel R. McCaig. 1993 (2nd edn). Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms. (First edition 1983 under the title Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English Vol. 2.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Crowther, Jonathan, Sheila Dignen and Diana Lea. (managing eds.) 2002. Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dubicka, Iwona, Margaret O’Keeffe and Joanne Taylore-Knowles. (eds.) 2015. Longman Collocations Dictionary and Thesaurus. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
Forgács, Tamás. 2003. Magyar szólások és közmondások szótára. Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó.
Fox, Chris. (ed.) 2000. Longman Phrasal Verbs Dictionary. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
Gulland, Daphne M. and David Hinds-Howell. 2001 (2nd edition). The Penguin Dictionary of English Idioms. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Heacock, Paul. 2003. Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kövecses, Zoltán, Marianne Tóth and Bulcsú Babarci. 1996a. A Picture Dictionary of English Idioms. Volume 1: Emotions. Budapest: Eötvös University Press.
Kövecses, Zoltán, Marianne Tóth and Bulcsú Babarci. 1996b. A Picture Dictionary of English Idioms. Volume 2: Human Relationships. Budapest: Eötvös University Press.
Kövecses, Zoltán, Marianne Tóth and Bulcsú Babarci. 1998a. A Picture Dictionary of English Idioms. Volume 3: Actions and Events. Budapest: Eötvös University Press.
Kövecses, Zoltán, Marianne Tóth and Bulcsú Babarci. 1998b. A Picture Dictionary of English Idioms. Volume 4: Thought and the Mind. Budapest: Eötvös University Press.
McIntosh, Colin. (ed.) 2009. Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Magay, Tamás. 1999. Angol és amerikai kifejezések szótára. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
Makkai, Adam, M.T. Boatner, and J.E. Gates. 2004 (4th edition). A Dictionary of American Idioms. Hauppage: Barron’s.
Nagy, György. 2003 (2nd edition). Angol-magyar idiómaszótár. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
Nagy, György. 2005. Magyar-angol idiómaszótár. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
Nagy, George L. 2006. Thesaurus of English Idioms. Budapest: Tinta.
O. Nagy, Gábor. 1966. Magyar szólások és közmondások. Budapest: Gondolat.
Pye, Glennis. (ed.) 1997. Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press.
Renton, Nick E. 1992. Metaphorically Speaking. New York: Warner Books.
Rundell, Michael. (ed.). 2010. Macmillan Collocations Dictionary: for Learners of English. Oxford: Macmillan Education.
Siefring, Judith. 2005 (2nd edition). The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Simpson, John. 1992. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sinclair, John and Rosamund Moon. (eds.) 1989. Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. London: HarperCollins Publishers.
Stern, Karen. (ed.) 1998. Longman Idioms Dictionary. Harlow: Longman.
The Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.
Urdang, Laurence, Walter W. Hunsinger and Nancy LaRoche. (eds.) 1985. Picturesque Expressions: A Thematic Dictionary. Detroit: Gale Research Company.
Urdang, Laurence and Janet Braunstein. 1992. Every Bite a Delight and other Slogans. Detroit: Visible Ink Press.
Dictionaries/Books of the origin of idioms/proverbs:
Dunkling, Leslie. 1993. The Guinness Book of Curious Phrases. London: Guinness Publishing.
Evans, Ivory Henry. 1990. Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. London: Cassell.
Flavell, Linda and Roger Flavell. 1992. Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins. London: Kyle Cathie.
Flavell, Linda and Roger Flavell. 1993. Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins. London: Kyle Cathie.
Funk, Charles Earle. 1948. A Hog on Ice. New York: Harper and Row.
Funk, Charles Earle. 1986. Heavens to Betsy! New York: Perennial Library.
O. Nagy, Gábor. 1979. Mi fán terem? Budapest: Gondolat.
Ostler, Rosemarie. 2008. Let’s Talk Turkey: The Stories Behind Ameica’s Favorite Expressions. New York: Prometheus Books.
Palmer, Geoffrey and Noel Lloyd. 1967. Exploring Everyday Expressions. London: Odhams Books Limited.
Rees, Nigel. 1996. The Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. London: Cassell.
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