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The literal meaning of the term Lexicology is:

• The science of the sound

• The science of the word

• The science of the meaning

• The science of the grammar

• The science of the phonetics

The term __________ is used to denote the system formed by the sum total of all the words and word equivalents that the language possesses:

• Vocabulary

• Words

• Linguo-stylistics

• General lexicology

• Special lexicology

Types of lexicology:

• Vocabulary, word

• Sounds, grammar

• General, special

• Phonetics, grammar

• General, vocabulary

This branch of linguistics discusses the origin of various words, their change and development:

• General

• Special

• Word

• Historical

• Descriptive

The smallest meaningful unit of a language:

• Word

• Sound

• Morpheme

• Vocabulary

• Lexicology

Lexicology studies:

• Morphemes, words, variable word-groups, phraseological units

• Modern English

• Grammar and phonetics

• Special, general, historical

• Free and bound

Morphemes are divided into:

• new and old morphemes

• grammatical and phonetic morphemes

• right and wrong morphemes

• open and close morphemes

• free and bound morphemes

The branch of Lexicology that is devoted to the study of meaning is known as________

• phonetics

• grammar

• Semasiology

• morphology

• syntax

Native words comprise……. Of English language vocabulary.

• 30%

• 70%

• 60%

• 50%

• 40%

The term “_________” is used in linguistics to denote the process of adopting words from other languages and also the result of this process, the language material itself7

• native words

• borrowing

• word-stock

• assimilation

• aspect