Contrastive Lexicology Outline

An Outline of English Lexicology

(contrastive perspective of English and Ukrainian)

1. Lexicology as a linguistic discipline. Fundamentals of vocabulary studies

1.

• The subject matter of Lexicology.

• Vocabulary as a System of Subsystems.

• Lexicology and Language Pictures of the World.

• Branches of Lexicology.

• The Structure of the English Lexicon.

• Varieties of English.

• Dictionaries of English

2.

• The word as a unit of language. What's in a Word?

• Models of the Sign.

  • Saussure's Approach.

  • Ogden and Richards's "Semiotic Triangle".

  • Buhler's "Organon Model".

2. Formal patterns of English and Ukrainian lexical inventory

3.

• Morphological structure of English and Ukrainian words.

• The Meaning of Signs and Kinds of 'Meaning'.

• Language and Reality.

• Approaches to Semantics.

• Denotation and Reference.

• Other Kinds of Meaning.

• Connotations and Markedness.

4.

• Categories and types of present-day English and Ukrainian word-formation.

• Morpheme, Word, Lexeme.

• The Classification of Morphemes.

• The Ambiguity of 'Word'. Lexemes, Lexical Items, and Word-Forms.

3. Semantic particularity of English and Ukrainian lexical inventory

5.

• Semantic structure of English and Ukrainian words.

• Contrastive studies of the development of the semantic structure of English and Ukrainian words.

• Word-Formation, Features, and Componential Analysis.

• Polysemy, Lexical Entries, and Sememes.

• Morphological Structure: Simple vs. Complex Lexemes.

• Compounds.

• Suffixal and Zero-Derivatives.

• Nominalizations.

• Word-Formation Processes and Productivity.

• Lexicalization and Idioms.

6.

• Semantic groups of words.

• The Semantic Structure of Words: Componential Analysis and Semantic Features. Semantic Decomposition and its Justification. A Typology of Features. Feature Semantics vs. Prototype Semantics: an Alternative? Relations between Components.

• Lexical Rules and Semantic Processes. Rules and Tendencies.

• Metaphor, Metonymy, and Categorization.

4. The stylistic layers of English and Ukrainian vocabulary

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• Varieties of language. Stylistically marked and stylistically neutral words.

• Relations between Words. Units, Classes, and Relations.

• Lexical Entry and Lexical Unit.

• Word Classes and Semantic Classes.

• Paradigmatic Relations.

• Homonymy vs. Polysemy.

• Zero-Derivation and Word Metaphors.

• Lexical Relations, Sense-Relations, and Lexical Semantics.

• Synonymy.

• Hyponymy and Incompatibility.

• Complementarity, Antonymy, and Converseness.

• Contrast and Opposition: Recent Work.

• Lexical Fields and Hierarchies.

• Association and Lexical Sets.

5. Соntrastive analysis of phraseology of English and Ukrainian

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• Fundamentals of phraseological studies.

• Syntagmatic Relations. Various Approaches.

• Selection Restrictions and Projection Rules.

• Transfer Features and Metaphor.

• Lexical Solidarities.

• Collocation as a Neutral Syntagma.

• Co-Text, Context, and the Mental Lexicon.

• Words in Context.

• The Functions of Word-Formation in Texts.

• Monosemization as the Resolution of Polysemy.

• Words at Work. Words in the Mind.

• Categorization and Psychology. The Structuring of the Universe.