In lexicography[citation needed], a lexical item is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's...

usually, however, bound morphemes are not included. Items in the lexicon are called lexemes, lexical items, or word forms. Lexemes are not atomic elements...

linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that is associated with affirmation or negation. An affirmation is a positive polarity item, abbreviated PPI or...

grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to...

The study of lexical semantics concerns: the classification and decomposition of lexical items the differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure...

and content words (lexical units, lexemes). One method to calculate the lexical density is to compute the ratio of lexical items to the total number...

as child, children, child's and children's may realise the same lexical item. Lexical grouping may be: Formulaic: it relies on partially fixed expressions...

statut), in which the lexical item has a similar form and meaning in Quebec French as in other varieties, but the context in which the item is used is different...

Hebraism is a lexical item, usage or trait characteristic of the Hebrew language. By successive extension it is often applied to the Jewish people, their...

constituents are lexical items. {XP, YP} where neither constituent is a lexical item. In each of these cases, there is no lexical item acting as a prominent...

English has become more familiar in South Africa. Indeed, some American lexical items are becoming alternatives to comparable British terms. Several white...

between two types of linguistic items: lexical items or content words, which carry specific lexical meaning grammatical items or function words, which serve...

terms in a language is to create a neologism, i.e. a completely new lexical item in the lexicon. For example, in the philosopher Heidegger's native German...

This article contains text in the Linear B syllabic script and characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words. Without proper rendering...

A semantic feature is a component of the concept associated with a lexical item ('female' + 'performer' = 'actress'). More generally, it can also be a...

elementary tree (initial or auxiliary) is associated with a lexical item. A lexicalized grammar for English has been developed by the XTAG Research Group...

structure of a lexical item is an element with zero or more open argument slots, which are filled by the syntactic complements of the lexical item. Conceptual...

a peculiar manifestation of morpho-phonemic adaptation of a foreign lexical item. Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Estonian and...

argument structures of lexical items (for example verbs and declensions) in order to alter their combinatory properties. Lexical rules affect in particular...

In linguistics, subcategorization denotes the ability/necessity for lexical items (usually verbs) to require/allow the presence and types of the syntactic...

portal Language portal Ending (linguistics) Inflection Lemma Lexicon Lexical item Lexical word vs. grammatical word Marker (linguistics) Multiword expression...

up lexical in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lexical may refer to: Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language Lexical item, a...

category symbols often refer to the syntactic category of a lexical item. Examples include lexical categories such as auxiliary verbs (INFL), phrasal categories...

must select the individual words—known as lexical items—to represent that message in a process called lexical selection. During phonological encoding,...

Program, items of the lexicon are of two types: with or without substantive content. Items of the former category are called lexical items, whereas items of...

often results in "mispronunciations".: 49  For example, the Israeli lexical item מתאבנים is often pronounced as mitabním (literally "becoming fossilized...

morphemes as leaves or features as leaves. Direct surface-to-syntax mapping in lexical functional grammar (LFG) – leaves are words Direct syntax-to-semantics...

grammaticalization:      lexical item → clitic → affix According to this model from Judith Klavans, an autonomous lexical item in a particular context...

The lexical integrity hypothesis (LIH) or lexical integrity principle is a hypothesis in linguistics which states that syntactic transformations do not...

find some way of applying the combinators to a sequence of lexical items until no lexical item is unused in the proof. The resulting type after the proof...