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Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
lexicologie

IND
1

MIS
area of language study concerned with the nature, meaning, history, and use of words and word elements and often also with the critical description of lexicography. Although formerly a branch of philology, lexicology is increasingly treated as a branch of linguistics, associated with such terms as lexeme, lexical field, lexical item, lexicon, lexis (see entries), on the premiss that they offer (or could offer, if tightly defined and widely adopted) a more precise and useful basis for the study of language than imprecise terms such as word and vocabulary (The Oxford Companion to the English Language).

PPN
294922113

UDC
801.3

MRF
81`373

RT
dictionaries
linguistics
semantics
terminology
vocabulary

BSO
18.01 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS GENERAL

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