Lexical vs Derivational - What's the difference?
lexical | derivational |
(linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
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(linguistics) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
As adjectives the difference between lexical and derivational
is that lexical is (linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language while derivational is of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.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).