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lexical unit — ˌlexical ˈunit 7 [lexical unit] noun = ↑lexeme … Useful english dictionary
Lexical semantics — is a subfield of linguistic semantics. It is the study of how and what the words of a language denote (Pustejovsky, 1995). Words may either be taken to denote things in the world, or concepts, depending on the particular approach to lexical… … Wikipedia
Lexical gap — A lexical gap or lacuna is an absence of a word in a particular language. Several types of lexical gaps are possible, such as untranslatability and missing inflections.TranslatabilityOften a concept lexicalized in one language does not have a… … Wikipedia
lexical item — noun A term word or a sequence of words that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs and proverbs, exemplified by cat , traffic light , take care of , by the way , and dont count your chickens before they hatch . Syn:… … Wiktionary
Prosodic unit — Minor (foot) break Major (intonation) break | ‖ IPA number … Wikipedia
HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Icelandic grammar — is a body of rules specifying how meanings are created in Icelandic. Icelandic is an inflected language with four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Icelandic nouns can have one of three grammatical genders, masculine, feminine… … Wikipedia
WordNet — is a lexical database for the English language.[1] It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets. The purpose is twofold:… … Wikipedia
Morphology (linguistics) — For other uses, see Morphology. Linguistics … Wikipedia
Root (linguistics) — The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (root is then called base word), which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Content words in nearly all … Wikipedia
