1-variant 1The subject matters of Lexicology

2. The major (basic) and minor meanings of the word.

There are two main types of meaning :

1) the grammatical meaning

2) the lexical meaning

The grammatical meaning is the formal meaning of a word. It is defined as the meaning belonging to the lexico - grammatical classes and grammatical categories. It is expressed by the word's form. Every word belongs to a definite part of speech and every part of speech has a certain grammatical categories. Ex. verbs have tense, voice, mood, person etc. Nouns have the categories of case, number etc. Ex. the words "asked" , "thought", "talked", " took", "ran" have the grammatical meanings of tense. The grammatical meanings unites words into big groups such as parts of speech.

The lexical meaning is the material meaning of a word. This is a meaning which gives the concept of a word. By the lexical meaning the word expressses the basic properies of the thing the word denotes.