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Linguistics vs Lexical - What's the difference?

linguistics | lexical |

As a noun linguistics

is the scientific study of language.

As an adjective lexical is

concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language.

linguistics

English

Noun

(wikiversity linguistics lecture) (wikipedia linguistics) (-)
  • The scientific study of language.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * algebraic linguistics * applied linguistics * archaeolinguistics * biolinguistics * clinical linguistics * comparative linguistics * computational linguistics * diachronic linguistics * ecolinguistics * ethnolinguistics * Eurolinguistics * evolutionary linguistics * historical linguistics * interlinguistics * metalinguistics * microlinguistics * neurolinguistics * paleolinguistics * pseudolinguistics * psycholinguistics * sociolinguistics * theolinguistics * xenolinguistics

    See also

    * diction * grammar * morphology * philology * phonetics * phonology * pragmatics * semantics * syntax

    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