Contrastive Analysis of Lexical and Structural Features of onomatopoeic Words in English and Ukrainian Languages
Autor: Sofia Sembai • February 20, 2017 • Coursework • 8,146 Words (33 Pages) • 1,208 Views
COURSE PAPER IN CONTRASTIVE LEXICOLOGY AND
PHRASEOLOGY OF UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH
CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF ONOMATOPOEIC WORDS IN
ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN LANGUAGES
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Table of Contents
- Introduction ...................................................................................................3
- Theoretical part…………………..................................................................6
2.1. Derivation in linguistics …............................................................................6
2.2. Onomatopoeia in English and Ukrainian languages……………….…........7
2.2.1. Uses of onomatopoeia………………………………………..……...9
- Research part ...............................................................................................13
3.1. Lexical and structural features of onomatopoeic words in Ukrainian language……………………………………………………….…………..…….13
3.2. Lexical and structural features of onomatopoeic words in English language…………………………………………………………………………15
- Conclusions .................................................................................................22
- References ...................................................................................................24
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Introduction
The study of onomatopoeia occupies a significant place in determination of fundamental linguistics questions, in particular the problem of motivation and origin of the sign language. Thus, the linguists interest, that is emerged to this linguistic phenomenon is quite natural.
The question about motivated or unjustified character of communication sound and meaning in the word has been and remains one of the most important in linguistics.
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