Contrastive Lexicology Outline
.docxAn Outline of English Lexicology
(contrastive perspective of English and Ukrainian)
1. Lexicology as a linguistic discipline. Fundamentals of vocabulary studies
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The subject matter of Lexicology.
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Vocabulary as a System of Subsystems.
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Lexicology and Language Pictures of the World.
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Branches of Lexicology.
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The Structure of the English Lexicon.
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Varieties of English.
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Dictionaries of English
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The word as a unit of language. What's in a Word?
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Models of the Sign.
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Saussure's Approach.
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Ogden and Richards's "Semiotic Triangle".
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Buhler's "Organon Model".
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2. Formal patterns of English and Ukrainian lexical inventory
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Morphological structure of English and Ukrainian words.
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The Meaning of Signs and Kinds of 'Meaning'.
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Language and Reality.
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Approaches to Semantics.
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Denotation and Reference.
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Other Kinds of Meaning.
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Connotations and Markedness.
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Categories and types of present-day English and Ukrainian word-formation.
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Morpheme, Word, Lexeme.
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The Classification of Morphemes.
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The Ambiguity of 'Word'. Lexemes, Lexical Items, and Word-Forms.
3. Semantic particularity of English and Ukrainian lexical inventory
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Semantic structure of English and Ukrainian words.
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Contrastive studies of the development of the semantic structure of English and Ukrainian words.
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Word-Formation, Features, and Componential Analysis.
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Polysemy, Lexical Entries, and Sememes.
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Morphological Structure: Simple vs. Complex Lexemes.
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Compounds.
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Suffixal and Zero-Derivatives.
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Nominalizations.
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Word-Formation Processes and Productivity.
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Lexicalization and Idioms.
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Semantic groups of words.
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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.
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Lexical Rules and Semantic Processes. Rules and Tendencies.
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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.
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Relations between Words. Units, Classes, and Relations.
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Lexical Entry and Lexical Unit.
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Word Classes and Semantic Classes.
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Paradigmatic Relations.
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Homonymy vs. Polysemy.
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Zero-Derivation and Word Metaphors.
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Lexical Relations, Sense-Relations, and Lexical Semantics.
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Synonymy.
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Hyponymy and Incompatibility.
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Complementarity, Antonymy, and Converseness.
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Contrast and Opposition: Recent Work.
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Lexical Fields and Hierarchies.
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Association and Lexical Sets.
5. Соntrastive analysis of phraseology of English and Ukrainian
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Fundamentals of phraseological studies.
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Syntagmatic Relations. Various Approaches.
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Selection Restrictions and Projection Rules.
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Transfer Features and Metaphor.
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Lexical Solidarities.
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Collocation as a Neutral Syntagma.
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Co-Text, Context, and the Mental Lexicon.
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Words in Context.
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The Functions of Word-Formation in Texts.
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Monosemization as the Resolution of Polysemy.
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Words at Work. Words in the Mind.
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Categorization and Psychology. The Structuring of the Universe.