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Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language.A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elements known as phonemes, or distinguishing sounds.
Some use "lexicology" as a synonym for theoretical lexicography; others use it to mean a branch of linguistics pertaining to the inventory of words in a particular language. A person devoted to lexicography is called a lexicographer and is, according to a jest of Samuel Johnson , a "harmless drudge".
Adam Kilgarriff (UK, 1960–2015) English and computer lexicography; Barbara Ann Kipfer (US, born 1954) English general and LSP; Ferdinand Kittel (Germany/India, 1832–1903) Kannada and English bilingual; Friedrich Kluge (Germany, 1856–1926) German language etymological; Grzegorz Knapski (Poland, 1561–1639) Polish, Latin and Greek thesaurus
Its scope encompasses not only lexicography, but also its relations with other fields, such as computer science or general linguistics. [2] The journal publishes the following types of contributions: [3] Research papers; Contemplative articles, reflecting on existing research and theories; Review articles and reviews; Discussions of projects
English lexicology and lexicography is that field in English language studies which examines English lexicon, English word-formation, the evolution of vocabulary and the composition of English dictionaries.
In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (pl.: lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, [1] dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. [2] In English, for example, break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking are forms of the same lexeme, with break as the lemma by which they are indexed.
Terminology differs from lexicography, as it involves the study of concepts, conceptual systems and their labels (terms), whereas lexicography studies words and their meanings. Terminology is a discipline that systematically studies the "labelling or designating of concepts" particular to one or more subject fields or domains of human activity.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.