Week 1 Introduction to lexicology; key terms (word-morpheme-lexeme-sign). Lexical and grammatical system; open and closed word classes.

Week 2 Morphological structure of words. Word formation – affixation.

Week 3 Word formation – compounding, conversion.

Week 4 Minor word-formation processes (blending, back-formation, clipping, abbreviations, acronyms)

Week 5 Historical development of the English word-stock. Borrowing and etymology; types of loans and the process of domestication. Linguistic characterology of the English word-stock.

Week 6 Syntagmatic sense relations. Collocation.

Week 7 Set expressions (e.g. phrasal verbs, idioms, proverbs, sayings, catch-phrases). Transparent vs opaque words.

Week 8 Word Meaning. Meaning and form (arbitrariness and motivation). Types of meaning (denotation, connotation).

Week 9 Paradigmatic sense relations (synonymy, oppositeness, meronymy, hyperonymy-hyponymy)

Week 10 Polysemy. Figures of speech (metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification).

Week 11 Word-stock Layers. Registers. Style. Centre and periphery of the English word-stock.

Week 12 Revision.