Lexicology

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Lexicography

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the making of dictionaries

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Phonology

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the study of linguistic sound systems

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Morphology

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the study of the form of words and of morphemes

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Syntax

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the study of the rules governing the arrangement of words within a phrase

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Semantics

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the meaning of words

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Etymology

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the derivation of words

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Polysemy

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the same word has two or more different meanings

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Homonymy

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several different lexemes with the same form

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Homographs

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Spelt the same, pronounced differently

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Homophone

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Pronounced the same, spelt differently

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Lexeme

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a word or a group of words that function as a single meaning unit

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Phrasal verbs

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verb + adverb or verb + preposition

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Idioms

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a phrase, the meaning of which cannot be predicted from the individual meanings of the morphemes it contains

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Inflection

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a general grammatical process which combines words and suffixes to produce alternative grammatical forms.

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Inflectional affix

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modifies a word grammatically

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Derivation

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a lexical process which forms a new word out of an existing one by the addition of a derivational affix

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Derivational affix

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makes a new word

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Compounding

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stems consisting of more than one root

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Conversions

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a word belonging to one word class is transferred to another without any change to form

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Blends

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a word coined by combining two other words, encompassing the original meanings of both component parts

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Clipping

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only part of the stem is retained

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Abbreviation

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a word initialized and pronounced as the letters of the alphabet

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Acronym

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a word initialized and pronounced like individual lexical item

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Denotation

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a word's literal meaning

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Connotation

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the associations evoked by a word beyond its denotation

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Word family

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comprises the base word plus its inflexions and its most common derivatives

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Lexical chunks

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groups of several words that functions as a meaningful unit with a fixed or semi-fixed form

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Collocation

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umbrella around compound words, lexical chunks, multi-word phrases, idioms and phrasal verbs

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Collocates

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two words that occur more often together than alone

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Polysemous word

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word having multiple but related meanings, polysemes

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Synonyms

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words that share a similar meaning

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Antonyms

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words with opposite meaning

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Hyponyms

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kind of; a hammer is a kind of a tool, hammer is a hyponym of tool

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Hypernym

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comprises; a hammer is a kind of a tool, a tool is a hypernym of hammer

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Co-hyponym

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hammer vs. screwdriver. Belongs to the same hypernym.

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Lexical field

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group of words with thematic relationship

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Communicative approach

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learning approach focusing on vocabulary

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Lexical syllabus

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syllabus focusing on those words most frequently used

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Receptive knowledge

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understanding

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Productive knowledge

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using

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Mental lexicon

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has a semantic organisation with morphological back-up

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Knowing a word - 8

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semantic, syntactic, cognitive, morphological, phonological, orthographic, cultural, autobiographical

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Hypocorism

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"nickname"

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Backformation

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a word created by removing an affix - typewrite

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Sense

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the meaning of a word within a language

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Reference

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the meaning of a word "in real life"