Example sentences for: lexicology

How can you use “lexicology” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It goes without saying that most of those drawn to lexicography, like those attracted to art schools, exhibit skills more likely to be associated with craft than with art; these days, far too few of those who work on dictionaries have a thorough grounding in literature, let alone the various specialties within linguistics—general and comparative studies, classical and modern foreign language study, phonetics, philology, etymology, to say nothing of lexicology and lexicography.

  • The problem is less one of simple (!) lexicology as one of information theory and psychology.

  • the compiler runs the additional risk of plunging into a discipline that requires extensive knowledge of Yiddish, Hebrew, and English linguistics, etymology, and lexicology.

  • The answer has nothing to do with their cause, however, but with the simple fact that dictionaries are not exercises in bi-unique substitutability; in other words, if one of the senses of run is `operate' (as in She runs an engine factory ), that does not make it valid to assume that one can substitute operate for run in We run in the marathon every year . Although recognizing this as a shortcoming of dictionaries and assigning it arbitrarily to what, for lack of a better term, we might call the “genius” of the language, might seem trivial to the casual observer, it is a valid matter for concern in the realm of lexicology.


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