LEXICOLOGY

THE OBJECT OF LEXICOLOGY The Theoretical and Practical Value of English Lexicology Types of Lexical Units The Notion of Lexical System

THE ENGLISH WORD AS A STRUCTURE Characteristics of the Word as the Basic Unit of Language Lexical Meaning and Semantic Structure of English Words Denotative and Connotative Meaning The Semantic Structure of Polysemantic Words

SEMANTIC CHANGE Types of Semantic Change Linguistic Causes of Semantic Change Extralinguistic Causes of Semantic Change

MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE Morphemes Free and Bound Forms Morphological Classification of Words Hybrids

WORD FORMATION Affixation Conversion Word-Composition Shortened Words Minor Types of Word Formation: Blending. Graphical Abbreviations. Acronyms. Sound Interchange. Distinctive Stress. Sound Imitation. Back-Formation.

THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH WORDS Native Words Borrowings Assimilation of Loan Words Etymological Doublets International Words

PHRASEOLOGY The syntactic criterion Semantic structure The origin of phraseological units Classification of phraseological units

ENGLISH VOCABULARY AS A SYSTEM Homonyms Synonyms Antonyms Hyponymy and Paronymy

. REGIONAL VARIETIES of the English Vocabulary Standard English Variants and Dialects American English Canadian, Australian and Indian Variants

LEXICOGRAPHY Types of Dictionaries Some of the Main Problems of Lexicography Historical Development of British and American Lexicography