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Linguistic vs Lexical - What's the difference?

linguistic | lexical |

As adjectives the difference between linguistic and lexical

is that linguistic is of or relating to language while lexical is concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language.

linguistic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or relating to language.
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  • Of or relating to linguistics.
  • *
  • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
  • (computing) Relating to a computer language.
  • * 1993 , Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems , CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114:
  • The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

    Derived terms

    * linguistic atlas * linguistic turn * logicolinguistic * quasilinguistic * sociolinguistic

    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