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lexicalic

lexicalic is the archaic form of lexical.

Meaning of lexical

Adjective

lexical (not comparable)

  1. Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.
    • 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...1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 137
  2. Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
  3. Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
    • a lexical verb
  4. Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.

Questions about lexicalic

What is lexicalic the archaic form of?
Lexicalic is the archaic form of lexical.

Words near lexicalic in the dictionary

  1. lexical units
  2. lexical verb
  3. lexical verbs
  4. lexical word
  5. lexical words
  6. lexicalic
  7. lexicalisable
  8. lexicalisation
  9. lexicalisations
  10. lexicalise
  11. lexicalised

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