English 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

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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