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Functional Lexicology of Russian

Course code

SKS6009.HT

old course code

SKS6009

Course title in Estonian

Vene keele funktsionaalne leksikoloogia

Course title in English

Functional Lexicology of Russian

ECTS credits

3.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To promote formation of the competence in the field of modern methods of the analysis of semantics and features of functioning of lexical units.
To receive the basic knowledge of theoretical base of functional lexicology and to learn to be guided in various lexicographic sources for the decision of various linguistic problems.

Brief description of the course

The basic concepts of Russian functional lexicology. Concept of a lexical word meaning etc. Word as communicative and nominative unit.
Hyponyms, hyperonyms, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, etc. in Russian. Word as a sign. Semasiology, onomasiology, ethymology. Change of a word meaning, loan from other languages, etc. Problems of terminology.
Types of phraseological units/idioms. Russian lexicography. Classification of dictionaries of Russian.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
Knowledge about modern directions Russian functional lexicology;
Skill to spend the analysis of semantics of language units in view of their functional features;
Skill to use modern methods of the analysis lexical and phraseological units;
To be able to be guided professionally in lexicographic sources.

Teacher

Inna Adamson, PhD

Prerequisite course 1

Functional Phonetics of Russian (SKS6008.HT)

The course is a prerequisite

Functional Morphology and Word-derivation of Russian (SKS6010.HT)

Study programmes containing that course