lexical
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lexical (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 137:
- 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).
- So, it seems clear that the idiosyncratic restrictions relating to the range of
- (linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
- (linguistics) Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
- a lexical verb
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terms derived from lexical (adjective)
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lexical (feminine singular lexicale, masculine plural lexicaux, feminine plural lexicales)
External linksEdit
- “lexical” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).