Citations:lexical item

English citations of lexical item

• 1992, Robert Freidin, Foundations of Generative Syntax‎^[1]:

  So the derivation of a sentence containing the lexical item man would include an operation that substitutes (11) for a [+N] in the phrase marker.

• 1993, Roman Kopytko, Polite Discourse in Shakespeare's English, page 396:

  He also realized that by comparing different types of text you may be able to spot "a different density ( repetition rate ) of lexical items, and different degrees of cohesion, in the short story and in the novel.

• 1998, Ronald Carter, Vocabulary‎^[2]:

  We should then be justified in suggesting that pins and needles is one lexical item, whose cluster is different from the cluster of the separate lexical items pin and needle.

• 1998, Edda Weigand, Contrastive Lexical Semantics, page 22:

  It is not surprising that this is a very common structure in language, because it allows the flexibility that was identified earlier in this paper as essential for an adequate lexical item.

• 2002, Ray Jackendoff, Foundations of Language‎^[3]:

  In order to trigger a response, the lexical item insect has to be bound to the encoded probe in working memory (or "selected into working memory"). But it can only be bound to the probe via its phonology (or orthography, if visually presented.)

• 2007, Kristel Proost ·, Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items, page 114:

  The meaning of lexical items may be described in terms of combinations of semantic features.

• 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 490:

  Thus there are 3751 lexical items covered in total. Taking into account polysemy, there are 4315 separate senses.