UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA

FACULTY OF ARTS

END-OF-SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS

DEPAPARTMENT: ENGLISH COURSE INSTRUCTORS: ALOBWEDE/ NUMFOR

MONTH: JULY COURSE CODE: ENGL 204

YEAR: 2016 COURSE TITLE: LEXICOLOGY

DAY: 13™ JULY 2016 TIME: 8-11

SECTION A:

1) Attempt with exemplification, the orthographic, lexicological, morphological and semantic definition of the

term ‘word’.

2) Lexico-semantic variants of a word taken together form its semantic structure or semantic paradigm. The

word face, for example, has the following semantic structure:

1. The front part of the head

2. Look, expression

SECTION B:

1) Compounding and blending; acronym and abbreviation are similar but distinctive processes in word

formation. Discuss with the aid of apt examples.

2) Provide clear examples to illustrate the assertion that the vocabulary of English is more ‘foreign’ than native.

3) What does the word ‘bull’ mean in each of the following sentences?

a) Beware of the bull!

b) I’m afraid that you will just have to take the bull by the horns.

c) Stop acting like a bull in a china shop!

d) Well done! You have hit the bull’s eye.

e) Don’t give me all that bull.