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FUNDAMENTALS OF LEXICOLOGY

FUNDAMENTALS OF LEXICOLOGY. Object of Lexicology Links of Lexicology with Other Aspects of Linguistic Types of Lexicology Two Principle Approaches in Linguistic. Lexicology. “lexis” - word, phrase “logos” - science. Language Units. Morphemes Words Word groups Phraseological units.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF LEXICOLOGY

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  1. FUNDAMENTALS OF LEXICOLOGY • Object of Lexicology • Links of Lexicology with Other Aspects of Linguistic • Types of Lexicology • Two Principle Approaches in Linguistic

  2. Lexicology • “lexis” - word, phrase • “logos” - science

  3. Language Units • Morphemes • Words • Word groups • Phraseological units

  4. Aims of Lexicology • Investigates the problems of word-structure and word-formation in Modern English • The semantic structure of English words

  5. Aims of Lexicology • Principles of the classification of vocabulary units into various groupings • The laws governing the replenishment of the vocabulary

  6. Aims of Lexicology • Studies the relations between various lexical layers of the English vocabulary

  7. Aims of Lexicology • The specific laws and regulations that govern development of the vocabulary • The source and growth of the vocabulary and changes it has undergone

  8. Lexicology and Other Linguistic Sciences • phonetics • grammar • stylistics • history of the language • social linguistics • typology

  9. Types of Lexicology • General Lexicology – general study of words and vocabulary, irrespective of the specific features of any particular language • part of general linguistics

  10. Types of Lexicology • Special Lexicology – description of the characteristics peculiarities in the vocabulary of a given language

  11. Types of Lexicology • Historical Lexicology – origin of various words, their change and development, linguistic and extra-linguistic factors influencing the structure of words, their meaning and usage

  12. Types of Lexicology • Descriptive Lexicology – vocabulary of a given language at a given stage of its development • functions of words, morphological and semantic structures of words

  13. Types of Lexicology • Comparative and Contrastive Lexicology – correlation between the languages , correspondences between the vocabulary units of different languages

  14. Synchronic (Descriptive) Approach • syn – “together, with” chronos - “time” • concerned with the language vocabulary as it exists at a given time

  15. Diachronic (Historical) Approach • dia – “through” chronos – “time” • development and changes of the language, evolution of vocabulary units as times goes by

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