Лекции по лексикологии английского языка. Гусева Г.В. - 4 стр.

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III. The Problem of Word-Boundaries

The difference between words and other two-facet units is not always clear.

There are:

1. Form words. On the one hand, they fuse with notional words phonetically and

do not function as sentence-members. On the other hand, they are positionally

mobile, e.g. a, to, and.

2. Loose compounds, e.g. speech sound, stone wall. On the one hand, theya are

built in speech. On the other hand, they have one lexical stress.

3. Phrasal words: his I-love-you‘s. On the one hand, they are built in speech and

are not reproducible. On the other, they have one lexical stress.

The difference between variants of the same word and different words is also

not always clear. Within the language system the word is a lexeme – an abstract

unit which unites all its variant:

a) lexico-semantic variants – different meanings of the same polysemantic

word: to give a pen, to give a smile, to give an answer;

b) phonetic variants – different pronouncation of the same word: neither,

either, often;

c) orthographic variants – different spelling of the same word: jail – gaol;

d) morphological variants – different morphemic structure of the same word:

learned – learnt, geographic – geographical.

IV. Lexicology and its Connection with Other Linguistc Disciplines

Lexicology is closely connected with other branches of linguistcs:

1. It is connected with Phonetics because the word‘s sound form is a fixed

sequence of phonemes united by a lexical stress.

2. Lexicology is connected with Morphology and Word-Formation as the

word‘s structure is a fixed sequence of morphemes.