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The adjective lexical refers to things concerning the words or lexicon of a language. Linguistics, the study of language, often uses lexical concepts.
Lexical may also refer to:
Linguistics
- Lexical (semiotics), 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 definition or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage
- Lexical form, the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries
- Lexical semantics, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote
- Lexical word, the opposite of function word
Computing
- Lexical analysis, the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens
- Lexical Markup Framework, the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons
- Lexical scope, a scope in computer programming
Other uses
- Lexical approach, a method of teaching foreign languages
- Lexical hypothesis, a widely used theory in personality psychology
See also
- Lexeme
- Lexicon (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Lexical"
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