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lexicalists

lexicalists is the plural of lexicalist.

Meaning of lexicalist

Noun

lexicalist (plural lexicalists)

  1. A proponent of the grammatical theory of lexicalism.
    • In a typical lexicalist approach (e.g. Koontz-Garboden 2006), the unmarked lexeme is taken as lexically listed, even if its meaning (as it often does) includes templatic entailments, and the derivational morphology is taken to operate on the underived form to yield the derived form. This is the...2014 September 25, Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, page 347

Questions about lexicalists

What is lexicalists the plural of?
Lexicalists is the plural of lexicalist.

Words near lexicalists in the dictionary

  1. lexicalised
  2. lexicalises
  3. lexicalising
  4. lexicalism
  5. lexicalist
  6. lexicalists
  7. lexicalities
  8. lexicality
  9. lexicalizable
  10. lexicalization
  11. lexicalizations

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