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English Grammar: LEXICOLOGY 1. Introduction. Reference, sense, and referring expressions. Lexicology is basically understood as the study of lexis (vocabulary or stock of words of a language). Stock evokes the idea of a set of words which brings the idea of the lexicon. The vocabulary is understood as meaningful units. (...) Lexicology is closely linked to morphology. In lexicology what matters is the meaningful side of the words. And in morphology what matters is the form of these units. The form and the meaning of a word may be related so they are closely linked. Meaning takes us to semantics. Part of the semantic studies is based in meaning: lexical semantics. So lexicology has links to many other areas, but our vision of lexicology is restricted. Etymology is a branch of linguistics on its own. It's regarded with words and its history. We should never mix lexicography with lexicology because...

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