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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
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
Derived terms[edit]
terms derived from lexical (adjective)
Related terms[edit]
Terms related to lexical
Translations[edit]
of a language's vocabulary
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lexical (feminine singular lexicale, masculine plural lexicaux, feminine plural lexicales)
External links[edit]
- “lexical” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lexical m, f (plural lexicais, comparable)
- Synonym of léxico
Spanish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lexical (plural lexicales)
Categories:
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- en:Linguistics
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese adjectives
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
