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Differentiation of vocabulary according to the functional styles of the language has no connection with Stylistics.
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Lexical meaning of a word cannot affect its grammatical forms and syntactical functions.
False
The word is not a minimal meaningful unit of the language.
False
Semantic motivation in words is solely based on direct meaning.
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Phonetical motivation in words is never based on association between sound clusters and certain meanings.
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Lexicology is a branch of linguistics that studies the vocabulary of a language.
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The origin of words and historical changes in meanings are studied under Semasiology.
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Word-building studies the process of creating new words and their structural patterns.
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Phraseology is the study of individual words.
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The words 'sky' and 'skin' are borrowings from the Scandinavian language.
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Study Notes
Lexicology and its Connection to Grammar, Stylistics, and Phonetics
- Lexicology is the branch of Linguistics that studies the vocabulary of a language and the characteristic features of lexical units.
- The word is the minimal meaningful unit of language, a two-plane linguistic sign with both form (expression) and meaning (content).
Words and their Motivation
- Phonetical motivation: based on similarity between sounds in a word and the sounds they denote (e.g., boom, splash, whistle).
- Morphological motivation: based on the connection between morphological structure and meaning (e.g., poetess, overestimate, regain).
- Semantic motivation: based on co-existence of direct and figurative meaning (e.g., foot of a page, eye of a needle).
Branches of Lexicology
- General Lexicology: studies words and vocabulary, regardless of specific language features.
- Special Lexicology: studies the vocabulary of a particular language.
- Etymology: studies the origin of words and historical changes in meanings.
- Semasiology: deals with semantic structure and development of meanings.
- Word-building: studies the process of creating new words and their structural and semantic patterns.
- Phraseology: studies word-groups with specialized meanings.
- Borrowing: deals with adopting and assimilating words from other languages.
Connection with Grammar, Stylistics, and Phonetics
- Grammatical forms can affect the lexical meaning of a word (e.g., glass, glasses).
- Lexical meaning can affect grammatical forms and syntactical functions (e.g., come true, turn red).
- Differentiation of vocabulary according to functional styles of language connects Lexicology to Stylistics.
- Phonetics influences the signification of words on the acoustic level, distinguishing between meanings (e.g., bat, hat).
- Lexicology connects with Grammar, Stylistics, and Phonetics in studying the characteristics of words.
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Test your knowledge on the aim, object, and branches of Lexicology, a branch of Linguistics focusing on the study of vocabulary and lexical units of languages. Learn about morphemes, words, word-groups, and phraseological units.
