Lexical vs Semantics - What's the difference?
lexical | semantics |
(linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
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(linguistics) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
(linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
* 2006 , Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, and Kristina Striegnitz, [http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse32 Learn Prolog Now!] , section 8.1:
The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
In linguistics terms the difference between lexical and semantics
is that lexical is concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary while semantics is a branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.As an adjective lexical
is concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language.As a noun semantics is
a branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.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 * polylexicalsemantics
English
Noun
(wikipedia semantics) (-)- Semantics is a foundation of lexicography.
- In fact, nowadays a lot is known about the semantics of natural languages, and it is surprisingly easy to build semantic representations which partially capture the meaning of sentences or even entire discourses.
- The semantics of the terms used are debatable.
- The semantics of a single preposition is a dissertation in itself.