1. LEXICOLOGY

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

3. 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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. ENGLISH VOCABULARY AS A SYSTEM
Homonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hyponymy and Paronymy

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

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