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ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY: A GENERAL REVISION
Part 1: Define the following terms.
1.English lexicology
English lexicology is a branch ofl linguistics concerned with the vocabulary of the English language in respect to words and word equivalents.
2.word
A word may be defined as a fundamental unit of speech and a minimum free form;with a unity of
sound and meaning(both lexical and grammatical meaning),capable of performing a given syntactic function.
3.vocabulary
4.native words
5.loan words
mon words
7.literary words
8.archaic words
9.poetical words
10.colloquial words
11.slang words
12.technical words
13.function words
14.content words
15.basic word stock
16.neologism
17.obsolete words
18.morpheme
19.allomorph
20.free morpheme
21.bound morpheme
22.root
23.free root
24.bound root
25.affix
26.inflextional affix
27.derivational affix
28.prefix
29.suffix
30.hybrid
31.simple word
32.word-formation rules
33.stem
34.base
pounding
pound
37.string compound
38.derivation
bining from
41.suffixation
42.differentiating suffixes
43.conversion
44.functional shift
45.derivation by zero suffix
46.partial conversion
47.acronymy
48.initialism
49.acronym
50.clipping
51.blending
52.portmanteau word
53.back-formation
54.reduplication
55.words from proper names
56.neoclassical formation
57.conventionality
58.motivation
59.phonetic motivation
60.morphological motivation
61.semantic motivation
62.echoic word/onomatopoeic word
63.grammatical meaning
64.inflectional paradigm
65.lexical meaning
66.denotative meaning
67.connotative meaning
68.social or stylistic meaning
69.affective meaning
70.purr words
71.snarl words
ponential anaylisis
73.semantic features/sense components
74.polysemy
75.primary meaning
76.cental meaning
77.radiation
78.concatenation
79.hmonymy
80.homonym
81.perfect homonym
82.homophone
83.homograph
84.synonymy
85.synonym
plete synonym
87.relative synonym
88.the double scale pattern of synonyms
89.the triple scale pattern of syonyms
90.antonmy
91.antonym
92.contraries
plementaries
94.conversives
95.root antonyms
96.derivational antonyms
97.marked member in tn antonymous pair
98.unmarked member in an antonymous pair
99.hyponymy
100.hyponym/subordinate
101.superordinate term/upper term
102.semantic field
103.context
104.linguistic context
105.lexical context
106.grammatical context
107.verbal context in its broad sense
108.extra-linguistic context/context of situation 109.ambiguity
110.lexical ambiguity
111.structural ambiguity
112.historical cause of semantic change
113.social cause of semantic change
114.linguistic cause of semantic change
115.psychological cause of semantic change 116.euphemism
117.grandiloquence
118.cynicism
119.restriction of meaning/specialization 120.extension of meaning/generalization 121.degeneration of meaning/pejoration
122.elevation of meaning/amelioration
123.metaphor
124.idom
125.phrase idiom
126.clause idiom
127.sentence idiom
128.Americanism
129.big words
130.prescriptive dictionary
131.descriptive dictionary
132.monolingual dictionaries
133.bilingual dictionaries
134.linguistic dictionaries