Introduction to English Lexicology

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics which deals with…

• various means of expressing grammatical relations between words and with patterns after which words are combined into word-groups and sentences

• the outer sound form of the word

• lexical units and the vocabulary of a language

• the study of the nature, functions and structure of stylistic devices and with the investigation of each style of language

The term lexicology comes from …

• a French word

• 
  

  a Greek word

• a Latin word

• a Chinese word

The object of lexicology is …

• lexical units

• grammatical units

• phonemes

• methods of lexical units’ investigation

LEXIS means …

• 
  learning

• phrase

• vocabulary

• morpheme

Lexicology has close ties with …

• honetics and grammar

• 
  literature, history and sociology

• phonology, morphology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, etymology, lexicography, dialectology, socio-linguistics, psycholinguistics

• literature, history and sociology, biology

1. In the period of old English, what language did people speak?

• Anglo- Saxon or old English

• Celtic

• modern English

• neither old English nor Anglo- Saxon

Old English was rather different from Modern English in ...............

• grammar

• pronunciation

• pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar

• vocabulary

How many words does the old English vocabulary contain?

• from 50,000 to 60,000 words

• only 60,000 words

• only 50,000 words

• about 70,000 words

In the Middle English (1150- 1500), English words were borrowed from .........

• Latin

• French

• French and Latin

• Celtic

The Modern English period (1500-1800 )is divided into .........

• 3 periods

• 2 periods

• 1 period

• many periods