Lexicology
Lexicology (of Greek origin: lexis ‘word’ + logos ‘learning’) is the branch of linguistics dealing with words. The lexical study includes the sense relationships between words, word structure and word formation, properties of words and their combinations, and many others. Hence, lexicology is concerned with the vocabulary and characteristic features of words as the main units of the language [Ilienko, 5].
Lexicology is a term used in semantics for the general study of a language’s vocabulary (including its history). It is different from lexicography, which is the science of making dictionaries by lexicographers. Lexicography may be seen as a branch of ‘applied lexicology’. The psychological study of word meaning is known as psycholexicology [Crystal, 278].
Lexicology is the branch of linguistics studying the stock of words (the lexicon) in a particular language [3].
The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature, meaning, words' elements, and relations between words involving semantic relations, word groups and the whole lexicon is called lexicology[4].
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⠀ 2. David Crystal. (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th Edition. New-Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
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⠀ 4. Retrieved from: YourDictionary [https://www.yourdictionary.com/lexicology].