• Lexical

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: lÄ•'ksÄ­kÉ™l, IPA: en, /ˈlÉ›ksɪkÉ™l/

    Origin

    From , from + -al.

    Full definition of lexical

    Adjective

    lexical

    1. (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language
      • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, 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).
    2. (linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
    3. (linguistics) Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word
      a lexical verb

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