the English language". Idiom is a phrase or expression whose total meaning differs from the meaning of the individual words. Methods of my studies Ø Dictionary of English Idiom; Ø Internet sites; Ø Phraseology of modern English; Ø Communication with English teachers; Ø Reading books and comparing with dictionary; On this subject I studied the literature Ø Antrushina G., Afanasyeva O., Morozova N., Ø Basics of English phraseology by Amosova N., Ø McMarthy, M., & O'Dell Felicity.(2008). English Idioms in Use. Ø Cambridge.(1989). The Penguin Dictionary of English Idioms. Ø Lewis, M. (1993).The Lexical Approach.LTP Ø McMarthy, M., & O'Dell Felicity.(2008). English Idioms in Use. Ø Onions, C.T.(ed.)(1966). The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Classification of idioms Classification of idioms for better understanding and learning. I think idioms can be grouped in a variety of ways
LEXICOLOGY 1. Size of English vocabulary 1) Old English – 50,000 to 60,000 words Vocabulary of Shakespeare OE – homogeneous; 1/3 of the vocabulary has survived • 884,647 words of running text About 450 Latin loans (Amosova) • 29,000 different words (incl. work, working, Viking invasions added 2,000 worked, which are counted here as separate 2) Middle English – 100,000 – 125,000 words) English becomes heterogeneous (Norman French, • 21,000 words English, Latin), hybrid of Germanic and Romance languages Norman French influence – about 10,000 words, 75 %
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