Lexicology

Englisch Lexicology (Linguistics)

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Lena Heupel

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What is lexicology?

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study of the lexicon or lexis. about meaning and usage of words. tries to find relations

What is lexicography?

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concerned with writing. not so much concerned about structure of words and relations

What is a lexeme? Give examples!

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lexeme is a lexicon entry. Can have different meanings

e.g.: fox, wing, bank

What are lexical units? Give examples!

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lexical units are the different meanings of a lexeme

e.g.: fox --> animal, person who is clever, skin of a fox

what comes under lexeme in dictionary entry

synonymy

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words that are different in form but can be used synonymously.

Meaning is similar

e.g.: jail and prison

homonymy

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same set of characters but diefferent unrelated meanings

same spelling but different meaning

e.g.: jail as noun, jail as verb

polysemy

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string of characters has different but related meanings

e.g.: wing (bird, plane, building) bank(to sit on, to get money from)

what is a zero-morpheme?

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morpheme can be dropped

e.g.: sheep --> sheep, cook --> cook

what is a mono-morpheme?

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can´t be broken down to something

e.g.: beauty

what is a lexicon?

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relation and connections between items

relation of words

not a list of items

what is the vocabulary?

collection of words

paradigmatic relations

relation between linguitsic items

need to be in same syntactic class

e.g.: My new car is blue --> My old car is blue

My new car is blue --> MY new car is red

My new car is blue --> My new bike is blue

syntagmatic relations

relationship between lexemes that are used in a sentence

e.g.: the man hit the colorful ball --> 'hit' indicates that 'ball' is something to play with, not to dance at

types of structre in the lexicon

external: to the word, the word itself

internal: morphologically complex (compounds, prefixal and suffixal derivation) or simple

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