lexical
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
lexical (not comparable)
- (linguistics) 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).
- 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
- lexic
- German: lexikalisch
- Portuguese: léxico, lexical
- Russian: лекси́ческий
- Spanish: léxico, lexical
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