lexical
adj/ˈlɛksɪkəl/
Etymology From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.
- So, it seems clear that the idiosyncratic restrictions relating to the range of complements which a Preposition does or does not permit are directly analo- gous to the parallel restrictions which hold in the case of Verbs. The restric- tions concerned are not categorial in nature (i.e. they are not associated with every single item belonging to a given category): on the contrary, they are lexical in nature (that is to say, they are properties of individual lexical items, so that different words belonging to the same category permit a different range of complements).1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 137:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
- a lexical verb
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
- Synonyms
- lexic
- Derived terms
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alexical, bilexical, delexical, extralexical, grammaticolexical, interlexical, intralexical, lexical analysis, lexical analyzer, lexical aspect, lexical bundle, lexical category, lexical choice, lexical correspondence, lexical definition, lexical density, lexical gap, lexical innovation, lexicalism, lexicalist, lexical item, lexicality, lexicalize, lexically, lexical middle voice, lexical resource, lexical scope, lexical scoping, lexical semantics, lexical set, lexical simplification, lexical substitution, lexical unit, lexical verb, lexical word, lexicase, monolexical, morpholexical, nonlexical, non-lexical, panlexicalist, paralexical, polylexical, postlexical, prelexical, pseudolexical, psycholexical, sublexical, supralexical, unlexical- Related terms
- lexeme, lexicalisation, lexicalization, lexicon, lexis