Special (of the particular lg)

General (lg universals)

A lexeme is a unit of lexical meaning, which exists regardless of any inflecional endings it may have or any number of words it may contain (G.N. Babich,p.13)

A word is the basic unit of a given lg. resulting from the association of a particular meaning with a particular group of sounds capable of a particular grammatical employment. It is a unity of form and content, a semantic, grammatical and phonological unity (I.V. Arnold, И.В. Зыкова, G.N. Babich)

Thus a word is a semantic, grammatical and phonological unit. Ex.: boy ‘a male child up to the age of 17-18’, boys, boy’s, boys’.

Different branches of lexicology:

	General
		Descriptive
		Comparative Contrastive

Lexicology:

3. Descriptive (studies the functions of words and their specific morphological and semantic structure, deals with the vocabulary as a system at a given stage of its development): boy, boyhood, boyish, boyishly, old boy, my dear boy, boy-friend.

It also studies all kinds of semantic grouping and semantic relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, semantic fields, etc.

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