Lexical vs Syntactic - What's the difference?
lexical | syntactic |
(linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
*
(linguistics) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
Of, related to or connected with syntax.
* 2001 , Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook , page 674:
As adjectives the difference between lexical and syntactic
is that lexical is concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language while syntactic is of, related to or connected with syntax.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 * polylexicalsyntactic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
- the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.