English lexicology

1.

Fundamentals of Lexicology

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Object of Lexicology
Links of Lexicology with Other Aspects of
Linguistics
Types of Lexicology
Two Principal Approaches in Linguistics
Word Theory in Linguistics

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Greek lexicos – relating to a word
Greek logos – learning
Lexicology is a branch of linguistics studying the
word and a system of words, i.e. semantics and
word structure, a word-stock system of a
language.
Greek lexicon, or lexical system, or lexis, or the
vocabulary of a language

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The object of the course in Modern English
Lexicology is lexicon, or word-stock in modern
English.
Aim: systematic description of modern English
word-stock (vocabulary)
Origin of English words;
Specific morphological structures of English words;
Word building means;
Ways of replenishing the English vocabulary;
Meaning of English words;
Relations of words in a language system;
Combinations of words in speech;
Variants of English;
Traditions of British and American Lexicography

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Grammar
Phonetics
Stylistics
History of the Language
Sociolinguistics
Typology
Pragmatics

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General Lexicology
Special Lexicology
Historical Lexicology
Descriptive Lexicology
Comparative Lexicology
Contrastive Lexicology

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Greek syn- -together
Greek dia- - through
Greek -chronos - time
Synchronic, or descriptive, approach
Diachronic, or historical, approach

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Lexical units
Morpheme
Word
A morpheme – the smallest two-faceted readymade lexical unit
Eg. re-, do-, -ing
A word – the central two-faceted ready-made
lexical unit
Eg. do, red, fish

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Definition of word
Orthographic definition
Morphological definition
Conceptual definition
Etc.
Why is it difficult?
Structure: man, man-kind-ly
Form and meaning: go – went – gone – going

10.

Word
Lexeme
Morphemes – the smallest two-faceted lexical
units
Words (lexemes) – autonomous two-faceted
ready-made lexical units
Set expressions, phraseological units, idioms
– the biggest ready-made two-faceted lexical units