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Lexycology. Word

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics focused on the study of words, their properties, structure, meaning, and behavior. It is divided into General Lexicology, which studies words across languages, and Special Lexicology, which examines specific language systems, further categorized into Historical and Descriptive Lexicology. The word is considered the fundamental unit of language, with Lexicology addressing its morphology, semantics, etymology, and usage.

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Lexycology. Word

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics focused on the study of words, their properties, structure, meaning, and behavior. It is divided into General Lexicology, which studies words across languages, and Special Lexicology, which examines specific language systems, further categorized into Historical and Descriptive Lexicology. The word is considered the fundamental unit of language, with Lexicology addressing its morphology, semantics, etymology, and usage.

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1.General and special lexicology.

Historical and
modern lexicology. Word as a language unit.
Lexicology (from Greek lexis ‘word’ and logos ‘learning’) is a branch of
linguistics, the science of language, concerned with the study of words: their
properties, structure, meaning and behaviour in the language.
Iryna Arnold says: “The vocabulary of the language is not merely the sum of
words, it is words and word groups, phraseological units that language possesses
and studies it from the point of view of its origin, development and current use”.
We distinguish General Lexicology and Special Lexicology. General
Lexicology studies words and vocabulary irrespective of any specific features of a
particular language.
Special (or Partial) Lexicology treats the problems of the given language system
and its specific features. 1). Every special Lexicology is based on the principles of
general Lexicology. Thus, for instance, the book you are holding in your hands is a
Special Lexicology textbook, because it investigates vocabulary and linguistic
universals of one specific language – Modern English. Special Lexicology is based
on the principles of General Lexicology.
Special Lexicology is further subdivided into Historical and Descriptive
(Modern).
The study of the vocabulary of a language in its development is the object of
Historical Lexicology. It deals with the origin of English vocabulary units, their
modifications and development. Ferdinand de Saussure was the first who
distinguished the historical approach to the study of the language from the static
approach.
Descriptive (or Modern) Lexicology deals with the semantic and
morphological structure of the words and the vocabulary system of the language at
a given stage of its development.
The word is the basic unit of a language; and the subject matter of Lexicology is
words, their morphological and semantic structures, their etymology, development
and current use.

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