What is the difference between lexicology and lexicography?
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(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
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(countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
(linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
Lexicography is a related term of lexicology.
As nouns the difference between lexicology and lexicography
is that lexicology is the part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon while lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.lexicology
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(wikipedia lexicology)Noun
- The fifth is devoted to doctrine; the sixth and seventh to remarks on syntax and lexicology respectively.
