A lexical function (LF) is a tool developed within Meaning-Text Theory for the description and systematization of semantic relationships, specifically...

progressing up the call stack. Most modern languages use lexical scope for variables and functions, though dynamic scope is used in some languages, notably...

In linguistics, function words (also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships...

also lexical closure or function closure, is a technique for implementing lexically scoped name binding in a language with first-class functions. Operationally...

The descriptor lexical is applied to the words of a language's lexicon, often to indicate a content word, as distinct from a function word. Light verb...

vowels. Yamato kotoba function differently grammatically than borrowed words. While borrowed words can be nouns, which can function as verbs via adding...

Lexical functional grammar (LFG) is a constraint-based grammar framework in theoretical linguistics. It posits two separate levels of syntactic structure...

Dagaare tone has two basic functions, namely a lexical and a grammatical function. Its lexical function concerns differences in lexical semantics, such that...

are dynamic, rather than lexical. (setf *x* 42.1) ; Sets the variable *x* to the floating-point value 42.1 ;; Define a function that squares a number: (defun...

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

numbers. Access to OpenVMS system services (kernel API) is through lexical functions, which perform the same as their compiled language counterparts and...

traditional scheme does—include word class, lexical class, and lexical category. Some authors restrict the term lexical category to refer only to a particular...

Lexical tokenization is conversion of a text into (semantically or syntactically) meaningful lexical tokens belonging to categories defined by a "lexer"...

In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or...

lexical verbs to indicate actions, adjectives to refer to attributes of entities, and adverbs to attributes of actions. They contrast with function words...

for linguistic research. The ETAP-3 system makes extensive use of lexical functions explored in the Meaning-Text Theory. For this reason, an interactive...

cognitive science and neuropsychology, executive functions (collectively referred to as executive function and cognitive control) are a set of cognitive...

and a low tone. Changes in tone have an impact on either the lexical or grammatical function of a particular word. With low tones the word becomes a verb...

nodes for all the lexical items (including those with purely grammatical function) in the sentence. Syntactic relations between lexical items at this level...

therefore can reference inner "lexical" variables from an outer scope because the lexical variable is "closed" inside of the function. Raku also supports "pointy...

use often appears to serve a stylistic rather than morphological or lexical function. The following table demonstrates the verb moods of verbs derived from...

Flex (fast lexical analyzer generator) is a free and open-source software alternative to lex. It is a computer program that generates lexical analyzers...

ambiguities due to lexical, syntactic, and semantic reasons that persist in mathematical notation. The ambiguity in the style of writing a function should not...

invoked function expression (or IIFE, pronounced "iffy", IPA /ˈɪf.i/) is a programming language idiom which produces a lexical scope using function scoping...

the point where the function is executed, instead of where it was defined. Proper support for lexically scoped first-class functions was introduced in Scheme...

a nested function (or nested procedure or subroutine) is a named function that is defined within another, enclosing, block and is lexically scoped within...

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...

session. Names assigned in a dfn are local by default, with lexical scope. ⍺ denotes the left function argument and ⍵ the right; ⍺⍺ denotes the left operand...

10133724  In some formalisms, such as Lexical Functional Grammar, these symbols can refer to both grammatical functions and values of grammatical categories...

mathematics, the lexicographic or lexicographical order (also known as lexical order, or dictionary order) is a generalization of the alphabetical order...