* The term lexicology is composed of two Greek morphemes: “lexis” (word) and “logos” (learning).
Thus, the literal meaning of the term “lexicology” is “the study of words. The diachronic approach deals
with the changes and the development of the vocabulary in the course of
time. Synchronic approach deals with special descriptive lexicology, diachronic approach deals with
special historic lexicology.
* There are many different types of English dictionaries. First of all they may be divided into two main
groups: encyclopaedic (describe objects, phenomena, people, etc. and give information about them) and
linguistic (describe words, their origin and usage). It should be noted that some scholars consider this
subdivision not so important nowadays, as encyclopaedic and linguistic dictionaries often overlap .
Encyclopaedias sometimes indicate the origin of words which belongs to the domain of linguistics. On the
other hand, encyclopaedic material is included in many linguistic dictionaries. In addition to information
about words, they give facts (in the body of the dictionary or in special sections in the back) about
people and places.
7 * As far as the complexity of the morphemic structure of the word is concerned all Eng ws fall into 2
large classes: segmentable (those allowing of segmentation into morphemes) & non-segmentable.
There are 3 types of morphemic segmentability: 1. complete
– you can easily split a w into morphemes,
the structure of the word is absolutely transparent: ungentlemanly. Constituent morphemes recur with
the same mg in a number of other ws. These morphemes are called morphemes proper.
* Semasiology is a discipline within linguistics concerned with the question "what does the word X
mean?". It studies the meaning of words regardless of their phonetic expression. Word-meaning is not
homogeneous. It is made up of various components. These components are described
as types of meaning. The two main types of meaning are the grammatical (categorical) meaning and
the lexical (material) meaning. The grammatical meaning is defined as an expression in speech of
relationship between words. The lexical meaning is the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all
its forms and distributions. ... According to this approach in the semantic structure of a
word two types of meaning can be singled out: the primary meaning and the secondary meaning