Lexicology

The lexicology (also: word teaching, customer word, vocabulary study ) is within linguistics, the theory of the lexicon within the meaning of vocabulary. It is defined as "the science of stock or the system of words and their meanings ." It is about the internal structure of meaning of linguistic expressions and the relationships between words ( lexemes ). Differences is the lexical morphology and lexical semantics.

Word

At the word is primarily within the lexicology to the contents page. The study of the meaning of words leads to the question of how the connection between word and body content comes into being and where the limits lie towards the use of other words.

Historical Aspects

The only since the 1950s, within the linguistics independently existing discipline examines the components of a language (special lexicology ) or of language in general ( general lexicology ) and trying to decide between the various lexical components (ie morphemes, words and fixed phrases ) relationships and rules determine. In the context of Quantitative Linguistics, the Quantitative Lexicology has established that tries ( for example, the Martinsche Act) to explore the regularities of structure and change in the lexicon and its use in texts.

Related disciplines

" A practical application field of lexicology is lexicography. ". It deals with the creation of dictionaries and draws on lexical results respectively provides new information on the lexicological investigation.

Both the lexical morphology as well as the ( Derivations ) morphology investigate formally the composite and derived words.

Related linguistic disciplines are the onomasiology, semasiology, etymology, word formation, phraseology and onomastics.