LEXICOLOGY: Final Test

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics which deals with…

• various means of expressing grammatical relations between words and with patterns after which words are combined into word-groups and sentences

• the outer sound form of the word

• lexical units and the vocabulary of a language

• the study of the nature, functions and structure of stylistic devices and with the investigation of each style of language

The term lexicology comes from …

• a French word

• a Greek word

The object of lexicology is …

• lexical units

• phonemes

• methods of lexical units’ investigation

LEXIS means …

• learning

• phrase

• vocabulary

Lexicology has close ties with …

• phonetics and grammar

• phonetics, grammar, history of a language, stylistics and sociolinguistics

• literature, history and sociology

What is Special Lexicology?

• It is the lexicology of any language

• It is the lexicology of a particular language

The synchronic approach to the study of language material is concerned with …

• the use of various words and phrases in particular communicative situations

• the evolution of the vocabulary items

• the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given period of time

The diachronic approach to the study of language material deals with …

• the changes and the development of vocabulary in the course of time

• the structural and semantic entity of language units within the language system

• the influence of extra-linguistic factors over the development of a language system as a whole

The object of Historical Lexicology is …

• the study of the correlation between the vocabularies of two languages

• the study of the evolution of the vocabulary

• the study of vocabulary at a certain time of its development

The word has …

• phonological and semantic aspects

• phonological and syntactic aspects

• phonological, semantic, syntactic aspects