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Lexical

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Lexical may refer to:

Linguistics

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  • Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language
  • Lexical item, a basic unit of lexicographical classification
  • Lexicon, the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
  • Lexical (semiotics) or content word, words referring to things, as opposed to having only grammatical meaning
    • Lexical verb, a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs
  • Lexical aspect, a characteristic of the meaning of verbs
  • Lexical form, the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries
  • Lexical definition or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage
  • Lexical semantics, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote

Computing

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Other uses

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See also

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