Lexicology
Englisch Lexicology (Linguistics)
Englisch Lexicology (Linguistics)
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| Sprache | English |
| Kategorie | Englisch |
| Stufe | Universität |
| Erstellt / Aktualisiert | 25.04.2014 / 25.04.2014 |
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What is lexicology?
study of the lexicon or lexis. about meaning and usage of words. tries to find relations
What is lexicography?
concerned with writing. not so much concerned about structure of words and relations
What is a lexeme? Give examples!
lexeme is a lexicon entry. Can have different meanings
e.g.: fox, wing, bank
What are lexical units? Give examples!
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
words that are different in form but can be used synonymously.
Meaning is similar
e.g.: jail and prison
homonymy
same set of characters but diefferent unrelated meanings
same spelling but different meaning
e.g.: jail as noun, jail as verb
polysemy
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?
morpheme can be dropped
e.g.: sheep --> sheep, cook --> cook
what is a mono-morpheme?
can´t be broken down to something
e.g.: beauty
what is a lexicon?
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
