Structural vs Lexical - What's the difference?
structural | lexical |
A component used in construction.
* 1982 , United States International Trade Commission, Certain carbon steel products from Spain (page A-49)
(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 structural and lexical
is that structural is of, relating to, or having structure while lexical is (linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language.As a noun structural
is a component used in construction.structural
English
Derived terms
* structurally * nonstructuralNoun
(en noun)- Freight differentials often increased the spread in favor of the imported structurals . Purchasers repeatedly emphasized that their purchases of imported structurals were split among a number of sources, including Spain, France, West Germany,
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).