What Greek morphemes compose the word "lexicology"?

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   What Greek morphemes compose the word “lexicology”?
   

Lexicology examines every feature of a word - including formation, spelling, origin, usage, and definition. The term is composed of two Greek morphemes: logos - learning, Lexus - word, phrase. Thus the literal meaning of the term is the science of the word

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   What does lexicology study?
   

Lexicology examines every feature of a word – including formation, spelling, origin, usage, and definition. Lexicology also considers the relationships that exist between words. It is a branch of Linguistics dealing with the vocabulary system of the language. It studies the total sum of all the words that the language possesses. Thus, this science studies the properties of the words as the basic units of the language.

3. 
   What is he object of study of General Lexicology?
   

General lexicology is a part of General linguistics. It is concerned with the study of vocabulary and its basic units, irrespective of the specific features of any particular language. It works out basic notions and methods of vocabulary study.

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   What does Special Lexicology study?
   

Linguistic phenomena and properties common to all languages are referred to as language universals. Special lexicology focuses on the description of the peculiarities in the vocabulary of a given language. Special lexicology is the lexicology of a particular language (English, Russian, German, French, etc.). It describes words and vocabulary of one particular language. Every Special Lexicology is based on the principles of General Lexicology.

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   What is the object of Historical lexicology?
   

The evolution of a vocabulary forms the object of historical lexicology or etymology (from Gr. etymon “true, real”), discussing the origin of various words, their change and development, examining the linguistic and extra-linguistic forces that modify their structure, meaning and usage.

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   What does descriptive lexicology deal with?
   

Descriptive lexicology deals with the vocabulary of a language at a given stage of its evolution. It studies the functions of words and their specific structure as a characteristic inherent in the system.

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   What branches of linguistics does lexicology have close ties with?
   

As every word is a unity of semantic, phonetic and grammatical elements, the word is studied not only in lexicology, but in other branches of linguistics, too, lexicology being closely connected with general linguistics, the history of the language, phonetics, stylistics, and grammar.

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   What are synchronic and diachronic approaches interconnected and interdependent ?
   

"Synchronic approach" and "Diachronic approach" redirect here. For other uses, see Synchronic and Diachronic (disambiguation).
Synchrony and diachrony are two complementary viewpoints in linguistic analysis. A synchronic approach (from Ancient Greek: συν- "together" and χρόνος "time") considers a language at a moment in time without taking its history into account. Synchronic linguistics aims at describing a language at a specific point of time, often the present. In contrast, a diachronic (from δια- "through" and χρόνος "time") approach, as in historical linguistics, considers the development and evolution of a language through history.^[1]
For example, the study of Middle English—when the subject is temporally limited to a sufficiently homogenous form—is synchronic focusing on understanding how a given stage in the history of English functions as a whole. The diachronic approach, by contrast, studies language change by comparing the different stages. The terms synchrony and diachrony are often associated with historical linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who considered the synchronic perspective as systematic but argued that language change is too unpredictable to be considered a system.

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   What are the structural aspects of the word?
   

 The formal/structural properties of the word are 1) isolatability (words can function in isolation, can make a sentence of their own under certain circumstances); 2) inseparability/unity (words are characterized by some integrity, e.g. a light – alight (with admiration); 3) a certain freedom of distribution.

10. 
    Explain which one can be considered a unity: a bluebell or a blue bell?
    

The formal unity of the word can be illustrated by comparing a word and a word-group comprising identical constituents (a bluebell – колокольчик, a blue bell – синий бубенчик). The word bluebell is characterized by unity; it possesses a single grammatical framing: bluebells. In the word-group a blue bell each constituent can acquire grammatical forms of its own. Other words can be inserted between its components. As for semantic unity in the word-group a blue bell each of the meaningful words conveys a separate concept. The word bluebell conveys only one concept. This is one of the main features of any word: it always conveys one concept, no matter how many component morphemes it may have in its external structure.