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Lexicology

Class at Faculty of Education |
O02303019

Annotation

The basic terms: the word and lexeme (as "dictionary entry"). The word: an orthographic, a phonological, a lexical, a grammatical unit.

Lexical semantics. Grammatical words; clitics: neither words nor affixes.Morphs and morphemes: the choice among allomorphs.

A formal typology of word-formation (derivology) as a part of lexicology. The basic notion of word formation: foundation and motivation.

The concept of onomasiological category (OC) and the classifiaction of OCs.The formation of new naming units and its means. The concepts of the word-formative type, the word-formative type, the word-formative category, and of productiveness.

The morphological and the word-formative structure of the word, and the morphological and word-formative analysis. Lexicography: a field of applied linguistics.

The types of dictionaries. The scope of idiomatics.

Functions of idioms: the structural and nominative.