Lexical vs Morphological - What's the difference?
lexical | morphological |
(linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
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(linguistics) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
Of, or pertaining to, morphology
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As adjectives the difference between lexical and morphological
is that lexical is concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language while morphological is of, or pertaining to, morphology.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 * polylexicalmorphological
English
Adjective
(-)- In much the same way, morphological competence'' is reflected in the native speaker's intuitions about morphological well-formedness and structure. For example, native speakers of English know that ''van'' and ''can'' have the respective plural forms ''vans'' and ''cans'', but that the plural of ''man'' is ''men'' and not *''mans . [...]