MKP Lexicology

... is the smallest discrete syntactic unit, capable of functioning alone and characterised by positional mobility, morphological uninterruptability and semantic integrity.

• morpheme

• phoneme

• word

... is graphically divided but indivisible either syntactically or in terms of meaning.

• sentence

• word equivalent

• word

Emotive,  evaluative, stylistic, figurative, and expressive meaning is found in ...

• denotation

• connotation

• collocation

The shorter the word, the higher its frequency of use; the higher the frequency, the wider its combinability; the wider the ... , the more meanings are realized in semantic paradigm.

• frequency

• combinability

Number of sounds that human speech organs can produce is lim­ited, 

production of new roots is absent, 

production of new words by morphological means is limited, and ... becomes increasingly important in providing the means for enriching the vocabulary.

• new root coinage

• polysemy

... method proposes hypotheses and testing their acceptability or falsity by determining whether their logical consequences are consistent with observed data.

• hypothetico-deductive

• hypothetico-inductive

What type of semantic change is it: OE mete ‘food‘  became in

NE meat ‘edible flesh’, ‘only a particular kind of food’.

• narrowing of meaning

• widening of meaning

• worsening of meaning

What type of semantic change is it: ON targa ‘a small round shield’ became in

NE target ‘anything that is fired at’?

• specification

• generalisation

• pejoration

What type of semantic change that happens when a word’s meaning is improved or becomes more positive over time as in OE cwen ‘woman’ -

NE queen?

• pejoration

• amelioration

• generalisation

What type of semantic change is it: OE sely 'happy, blessed, fortunate‘  -

NE silly?

• amelioration

• pejoration

• specification