I.Lexicology as a branch of linguistics

General Lexicology

Special Lexicology

syncronic approach

diachronic approach

Special Descriptive Lexicology

Special Historical Lexicology

word-stock of a language

Linguistic causes of the changes in the vocabulary

Extralinguistic causes of the changes in the vocabulary

two-facet unit

paradigm

lexical unit

lexical varieties of words (variants of words)

lexico-semantic variant

lexeme

II.Semasiology.Word-meaning. Polysemy. Homonymy. Semantic classification of words

word-meaning

the referential approach

the functional approach

the sound-form of a linguistic sign

the concept underlying the sound-form

the referent

the linguistic sign

the inner facet of a word (the meaning)

the outer facet of a word (the sound-form)

lexical meaning

the component of meaning

the denotational (denotative)component of meaning

the connotational (connotative) component of meaning

emotive evaluation

emotive charge

stylistic reference

stylistic differentiation of vocabulary

literary, neutral, colloquial layers

standard colloquial words

literary (bookish) words

archaisms

barbarisms

part of speech / differential / distributional meaning in morphemes

morphological / phonetic / semantic motivation

change of meaning

extralinguistic / linguistic causes of semantic change

similarity of meaning

contiguity of meaing

restriction / extention of meaning

amelioration / deterioration of meaning

polysemy, polysemous (polysemantic)

semantic structure of the word

the primary meaning of the word

the secondary meaning of the word

the basic / central meaning of the word

minor meanings of the word

homonymy, homonyms

homographs

homophones

semantic classification of words

semantic field

semantic similarity / polarity

hyponymy

hyponymic relations

semantic equivalence

synonymy

semantic contrasts

antonymy

contraries

contradictories

word-family

III.Word-groups and phraseological units

free word-group

lexical / grammatical valency

phraseological unit

set-phrase

idiom

word-equivalent

phraseological unities / fusions / collocations

phraseme

IV.Word-structure. Classification of morphemes

morpheme

morphemic analysis

word segmentability

root morpheme

affixational morpheme

complexes

simplexes

suffixal / prefixal derivative

V.Word-Formation. Affixation. Prefixation. Suffixation. Conversion. Word-Composition

word-derivation

affixation

prefixation

suffixation

conversion

word-composition

pruductivity of word-formation

productive / non-productive way of forming words

occasional word, nonce-word

stress patterns in compound words

derivational compound adjective

VI.Various (non-patterned) ways of word-creation

shortening

acronym

blending

clipping

back-formation

VII.Etymological survey of the English word-stock

native word

borrowing

borrowed word

source of borrowing

origin of the word

assimilation of borrowings

VIII.Variants and dialects of the English language

territorial variant

local variety

to serve all spheres of verbal communication

literary norm

rural population

to be used only in oral communication

IX.Fundamentals of English Lexicography

compile a dictionary

encyclopaedic dictionary

linguistic dictionary

monolingual / bilingual dictionary

explanatory dictionary

translation dictionary

usage / pronouncing / etymological / of word-frequency dictionaries

thesaurus

learner's dictionary

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