LEXICOLOGY
Definition
● lexicology (from Greek lexis "words" and logos "learning") is the part of linguistics dealing with the vocabulary of the language and the properties of words as the main units of language.
● lexicology as a branch of linguistics has its own aims and methods of scientific research, its basic task being a study and systematic description of vocabulary in respect to its origin, development and current use.
● lexicology is concerned with words, variable
words groups, phraseological units, and with morphemes which make up words.
● Descriptive Lexicology
Synchronically, these word are related as a simple word (to beg) and a derived word (beggar). The noun beggar is derived from the verb to beg by means of the suffix.
● Historical Lexicology
Diachronically we learn that the noun beggar was borrowed feom old french and the verb to beg appeared in the english language as a result of back derivation the formation of a word from the stem (base) of another word, by means of cutting off suffixes (prefixes) from the source word. I,e,. It was deribed from the noun beggar
