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Phrases 40
- lexical itemA term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.
- lexical categoryA linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.
- lexical analysisThe conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing.
- lexical analyzerA computer program that performs lexical analysis.
- lexical aspectA property of verbs and other predicates indicating internal temporal nature; aktionsart.
- lexical scopingThe property of being lexically scoped.
- lexical categoriesplural of lexical category: A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.
- lexical choiceThe selection of content words in a generated text.
- lexical correspondenceA set of cognate words or morphemes in two or more related languages, where regular sound correspondences occur between the phonemes contained in the words.
- lexical definitionThe meaning of a word in actual usage by speakers of a certain language.
- lexical definitionsplural of lexical definition: The meaning of a word in actual usage by speakers of a certain language.
- lexical densityA concept in computational linguistics that measures language complexity by analyzing the ratio of lexical items to total words or higher structural items.
- lexical gapSynonym of accidental gap: A potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite the fact that it would be permissible by the grammatical rules of that language.
- lexical gapsplural of lexical gap: A potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite the fact that it would be permissible by the grammatical rules of that language.
- lexical innovationThe introduction of new terms or meanings into a language’s vocabulary.
- lexical itemsplural of lexical item: A term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.
- lexical resourceA linguistic asset comprising information about the words and their meanings within one or more languages.
- lexical scopeSynonym of lexical scoping: The property of being lexically scoped.
- lexical semanticsThe study of how the words of a language denote either things in the real world or concepts.
- lexical setA group of words that share a particular phonological feature.
- lexical setsplural of lexical set: A group of words that share a particular phonological feature.
- lexical substitutionThe task of replacing a word with another word while maintaining the meaning and context of the original sentence or phrase.
- lexical unitSynonym of lexical item: A term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.
- lexical verbA member of an open class of verbs typically expressing action, state, or other predicate meaning that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs.
- lexical wordSynonym of content word: A word that is not a function word, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.
Compound words 25
- paralexicalPertaining to, or communicated through, paralexicon (parallel vocabulary, e.g. ritual or secret cant, formal jargon)
- delexicalThat has little or no meaning by itself.
- lexicalistA proponent of the grammatical theory of lexicalism.
- lexicalityThe condition of being lexical.
- monolexicalConsisting of a single word.
- nonlexicalNot lexical.
- prelexicalBefore the lexical stage.
- sublexicalReferring to constituent parts of a word.
- extralexicalOutside of lexical concerns; not part of the lexicon.
- grammaticolexicalSynonym of lexicogrammatical: Of or pertaining to lexicogrammar.