English Lexicology and Lexicography, Year 1, English Philology students
Wk Date Course content
W 1 Feb 6-8 Intro to the module: aims, structure, assessment scheme.
L EXICOLOGY
Lecture 1. Intro to the course: aims, general requirements and deadlines. What is lexicology? Basic units, main branches, systemic nature of the English vocabulary etc.
Seminar 1. The word and the morpheme
Seminar 2. Morphological structure of the
English Word. Methods of analysis.
Structural types of words
W 2 Feb 13-
15
Lecture 2. Intro to lexical semantics: main concepts. Language as a communication system. Triangle of signification. Meaning, reference, denotation etc.
W 3 Feb 27-
March 1
Lecture 3. Types of meaning: conceptual, denotative, referential, connotative, stylistic, affective etc. Motivation of meaning.
W 4 March
6-8
Lecture 4. Semantic structure of the English word. Polysemy.
Seminar 3. Word derivation as a major type of word building in English
Lexicology: mid-term test.
W 5 March
13-15
Lecture 5. Change of meaning Seminar 4. Conversion and related processes
W 6 March
20-22
Lecture 6. Syntagmatic characterisation of the
English vocabulary. Combinability at the semantic and syntactic level.
Seminar 5. Word composition
W 7 March
27-29
W 8 Apr 3-5 Lecture 7. Paradigmatic characterisation of the
English vocabulary. Inclusion: hyponymy, meronymy, synonymy. Exclusion: opposition
Seminar 6. Word composition (cntd).
Minor ways of word building.
W 9 Apr 10-
12
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10
Apr 17-
19
Lecture 8. Paradigmatic characterisation of the
English vocabulary: homonymy
Seminar 7. Revision. Summing up.
Feedback on the course
Lexicology: examination
L EXICOGRAPHY
Lecture 1. Aims and principles of lexicography. Early English dictionaries (before 1750s)
W
11
Apr 24-
26
Lecture 2. Samuel Johnson’s dictionary. The beginning of OED
W
12
May 1-3
Seminar 1. Macro- and microstructure of a dictionary
Home task: describe the macro- and microstructure of your dictionary
Seminar 2. ELT dictionaries: coverage, defining vocabulary, language use and grammar.
Home task: write 150-200 words discussing specific features of any ELT dictionary

W
13
W
14
May 8-
10
Lecture 3. American English dictionaries
(Noah Webster)
Seminar 3. ELT dictionary vs.
general dictionary (OED, Webster). Comparing different ELT dictionaries
Home task: choose one word and compare its entries in two different dictionaries; be ready to present your findings in class
May 15-
17
Lecture 4. Types of dictionaries. Current issues in lexicography
Seminar 4. Dictionaries of synonyms/antonyms, Roget’s Thesaurus, dictionaries of special terminology, dictionary vs.
encyclopaedia
Home task: revision for the test
W
15
W
16
May 22-
24
May 29-
31
Feedback on the results (optional)
Lexicography: test