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sounds,  possessing  a  meaning,  susceptible  to  grammatical
                            employment and characterized by formal and semantic unity.


                                  3. Lexicology, its interrelations with other sciences
                                  According  to  S.  Ullmann,  lexicology  forms  next  to
                            phonology,  the  second  basic  division  of  linguistic  science  (the
                            third is syntax). Consequently, the interaction between vocabulary
                            and  grammar  is  evident  in  morphology  and  syntax.  Grammar
                            reflects the specific lexical meaning and the capacity of words to
                            be combined in human actual speech. The lexical meaning of the
                            word, in its turn, is frequently signaled by the grammatical context
                            in  which  it  occurs.  Thus,  morphological  indicators  help  to
                            differentiate the variant meanings of the word (e.g., plural forms
                            that serve to create special lexical meaning: colors, customs, etc.;
                            two kinds of pluralization: brother → brethren - brothers; cloth →
                            cloths - clothes). There are numerous instances when the syntactic
                            position of the word changes both its function and lexical meaning
                            (e.g.,  an  adjective  and  a  noun  element  of  the  same  group  can
                            change places: library school - school library).
                                  The interrelation between lexicology and phonetics becomes
                            obvious if we think of the fact that the word as the basis unit in
                            lexicological study cannot exist without its sound form, which is
                            the object of study in phonology. Words consist of phonemes that
                            are devoid of meaning of their own, but forming morphemes they
                            serve to distinguish between meanings. The meaning of the word
                            is determined by several phonological features:
                                   a) qualitative and quantitative character of phonemes (e.g.
                            dog-dock, pot-port);
                                  b) fixed sequence of phonemes (e.g. pot-top);
                                  3) the position of stress (e.g. insult (verb) and insult (noun)).
                                  Summarizing,  lexicology  is  the  branch  of  linguistics
                            concerned with the study of words as individual items and dealing
                            with both formal and semantic aspects of words; and although it is













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