Lexical vs Grammatical - What's the difference?
lexical | grammatical |
(linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
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(linguistics) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
(linguistics) Acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.
Of or pertaining to grammar.
In linguistics terms the difference between lexical and grammatical
is that lexical is concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary while grammatical is acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.lexical
English
Adjective
(-)- 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 associated with
every single item belonging to a given category): on the contrary, they are
''lexical in nature (that is to say, they are properties of individual lexical items,
so that different words belonging to the same category permit a different range
of complements).
Derived terms
* bilexical * lexical analysis * lexical analyzer * lexical definition * lexical item * lexicality * lexically * lexical semantics * lexical unit * monolexical * polylexicalgrammatical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Your writing is not grammatical enough for publication.
- My friend used a grammatical textbook to support her argument.