LING 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Connotation, Arthur Rimbaud, Alexander Scriabin
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Lexicology: the discipline that studies words and their characteristics, such as their nature, meaning and origin. Semantics: the discipline that studies meaning in a language, including word meaning. Lexeme: a word as a unit of linguistic structure; carries specific meaning; can be used to produce new words; belongs to particular word class (or part of speech) All the words in a language make its lexicon. Mental lexicon: all the words in the head of a native speaker of a language. Lemma: a word form which is selected for a dictionary entry. Lexicography: a discipline that examines the principles of compiling words in dictionaries. General dictionaries: provide some information about words. Pronunciation dictionaries: detailed information about different ways of pronouncing a given word, and multiple dialects of english are often represented. Etymological dictionaries: provide detailed information about a word"s origins, not necessarily anything about its meaning or pronunciation.
