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Lexical vs Lexicological - What's the difference?

lexical | lexicological |

As adjectives the difference between lexical and lexicological

is that lexical is (linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language while lexicological is pertaining to lexicology.

lexical

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
  • *
    • 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).
  • (linguistics) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary

    • Derived terms

    * bilexical * lexical analysis * lexical analyzer * lexical definition * lexical item * lexicality * lexically * lexical semantics * lexical unit * monolexical * polylexical

    Related terms

    * lexeme * lexicalisation, lexicalization * lexicon * lexis

    lexicological

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • pertaining to lexicology
  • *1937 , J. Orr, translator, Iordan's Introduction to Romance Linguistics :
    • In some, the arbitrary character of the linguistic signs is more apparent..and these Saussure calls lexicological languages.