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In lexicography[citation needed], a lexical item is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon (≈ vocabulary).[citation needed] Examples are cat, traffic light, take care of, by the way, and it's raining cats and dogs. Lexical items can be generally understood to convey a single meaning, much as a lexeme, but are not limited to single words. Lexical items are like semes in that they are "natural units" translating between languages, or in learning a new language. In this last sense, it is sometimes said that language consists of grammaticalized lexis, and not lexicalized grammar. The entire store of lexical items in a language is called its lexis.
Lexical items composed of more than one word are also sometimes called lexical chunks, gambits, lexical phrases, lexicalized stems, or speech formulae.[citation needed] The term polyword listemes is also sometimes used.[citation needed]
In lexicography[citation needed], a lexicalitem is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's...
usually, however, bound morphemes are not included. Items in the lexicon are called lexemes, lexicalitems, or word forms. Lexemes are not atomic elements...
The study of lexical semantics concerns: the classification and decomposition of lexicalitems the differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure...
grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexicalitems) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to...
linguistics, a polarity item is a lexicalitem that is associated with affirmation or negation. An affirmation is a positive polarity item, abbreviated PPI or...
Hebraism is a lexicalitem, usage or trait characteristic of the Hebrew language. By successive extension it is often applied to the Jewish people, their...
up lexical in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lexical may refer to: Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language Lexicalitem, a...
statut), in which the lexicalitem has a similar form and meaning in Quebec French as in other varieties, but the context in which the item is used is different...
distinction needs to be made between lexicalitems or content words, which carry specific lexical meaning, and grammatical items or function words, which serve...
constituents are lexicalitems. {XP, YP} where neither constituent is a lexicalitem. In each of these cases, there is no lexicalitem acting as a prominent...
terms in a language is to create a neologism, i.e. a completely new lexicalitem in the lexicon. For example, in the philosopher Heidegger's native German...
A semantic feature is a component of the concept associated with a lexicalitem ('female' + 'performer' = 'actress'). More generally, it can also be a...
category symbols often refer to the syntactic category of a lexicalitem. Examples include lexical categories such as auxiliary verbs (INFL), phrasal categories...
argument structures of lexicalitems (for example verbs and declensions) in order to alter their combinatory properties. Lexical rules affect in particular...
etymological calque is a lexicalitem calqued from another language by replicating the etymology of the borrowed lexicalitem although this etymology is...
a peculiar manifestation of morpho-phonemic adaptation of a foreign lexicalitem. Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Estonian and...
This article contains text in the Linear B syllabic script and characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words. Without proper rendering...
In linguistics, subcategorization denotes the ability/necessity for lexicalitems (usually verbs) to require/allow the presence and types of the syntactic...
reg-i, etc. For a language like Latin, a root can be defined as the main lexical morpheme of a word. These sample English words have the following morphological...
clause but serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the lexicalitem it modifies. Intensifiers are grammatical expletives, specifically expletive...
structure of a lexicalitem is an element with zero or more open argument slots, which are filled by the syntactic complements of the lexicalitem. Conceptual...
The proposed substratal elements in Romanian are mostly lexicalitems. The process of determining if a word is from the substratum involves comparison...
listed. However, not all lexicalitems in Thracian are assumed to be from the Proto-Indo-European language, some non-IE lexicalitems in Thracian are to be...
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