1. Lexicology is the branch of linguistics.
2. Definition, its aim and methods of scientific research.
3. What is a word?
4. Lexical units.
5. Varieties of words.
6. Affixation.
7. The etymology of English words
8. Words of native origin
9. Causes and ways of borrowings
10. Assimilation of borrowings.
11. Semasiology
12. What is meaning?
13. Referential approach to meaning
14. Functional approach to meaning.
15. Grammatical meaning. 16.Lexical meaning.
17.Denotational meaning. 18.Connotational meaning.
19. Classification of word
20. Semantic fields.
21. Hyponymic structures
22. Semantic equivalence and synonymy
23. Semantic contrasts and antonymy
24. Word-groups
25. Structure of word-groups.
26. Meaning of word-groups
27. Lexical meaning
28. Structural meaning
29. Lexical Valency
30. Grammatical Valency
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32. Semantic structure of polysemantic words
33. Diachronic and Synchronic approaches
34. Polysemy and arbitrariness of semantic structure
35. Polysemy and Homonymy. 36.Polysemy. Semantic structure of the word.
37. Homonymy of words and homonymy of word-forms.
38.Sources of homonyms.
39. Word-Formation.
40. Various types and ways of forming words. 41.Word-Formation.
42. Basic Peculiarities of Word-Formation
43.Productivity of word-formation means.
44.Affixation
45.Prefixation
46.Classification of prefixes.
47.Suffixation.
48.Classification of suffixes.
49.Phraseological units
5O.Free word-groups, Phraseological units, Idioms
51. Classification of phraseological units.
52. Idioms proper.
53. Proverbs
54. Variants and dialects of the English language
55. Local dialects in the British Isles
56. Local dialects in the USA
57. Fundamentals of English Lexicography
58. Classification of Linguistic dictionaries
59. Basic problems of Dictionary Compiling
60. Terms and Nomenclatures.
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