FUNDAMENTALS OF LEXICOLOGY

Lexicology
“lexis” - word, phrase
“logos” - science

Language Units
Morphemes
Words
Word groups
Phraseological units

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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