What is Lexicology?

What is Lexicology?

Lexicology: The study of lexis, understood as the stock of words in a given lenguage. vocabullary-coloquial, lexicon-learned and technical, lexis-halfway between.

Lexicology

total word stock of the language.

Etimology

Morphology

dictionary

a selective recording of that word

stock at a given point in time.

Semantics

Etimology: origins of the world, whole history of words.

Lexicography

Morphology: study of morphemes and their arrengements in forming words. morpheme: smallest meaningful units which may constitute words of parts of words.

Syntagmatic

Paradigmatic

Dictionary

Semantics: study of meaning. Explain and describe meaning in natural languages.

Morpheme

Syntax, semantics and lexicology contribute to a comprehensive study of language.

Lexis

There can be no "true" or "original meaning".

Lexicography: special technique, writing and compilation of dictionaries.

Lexicon

Vocabulary

Syntagmatic vs Paradigmatic -syntagmatic relation is the difference between one unit and another that belong the same sentence. -paradigmatic relation is the difference between units belonging to the same category.

All these concepts have their own meaning and work differently, but at the same time, they compliment each other in the study of linguistics. Some of them can be confusing at first, but when you comprehend them it's easier to understand their importance. Talking about lexicology, I think it will be very interesting to see how many times a word can change without losing its lexical meaning.

Fátima Lizeth Guerrero Enríquez