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Lexical means “to do with words” — not grammar, not spelling rules, but the words themselves: what a language has in its word-stock, and the meaning that lives inside a word. Language teachers and linguists use it constantly; you will almost never hear it in a shop.
Lexical means "to do with words"Lexical的意思是「跟字有關的」 not grammar, not spelling rules不是文法,也不是拼字規則 but the words themselves而是字本身 what a language has in its word-stock一種語言的詞庫裡有什麼字 and the meaning that lives inside a word以及一個字裡面帶著的意思 Language teachers and linguists use it constantly語言老師和語言學家很常用這個字 you will almost never hear it in a shop但你幾乎不會在店裡聽到
A lexical item is one piece of vocabulary. That may be a single word (cat) or a set phrase that belongs together (look after, by the way).
A lexical item is one piece of vocabularyA lexical item指的是一個詞彙單位 That may be a single word (cat)可能是單一個字(像cat) or a set phrase that belongs together (look after, by the way)也可能是一組固定搭配的詞(像look after、by the way)
Lexical meaning is the meaning the word carries, as against the meaning that grammar adds (past tense, plural, and so on). People also talk about a lexical decision (choosing this word rather than that one) and a ’s lexical knowledge (how many words they really command).
Lexical meaning is the meaning the word carriesLexical meaning指的是一個字本身帶的意思 as against the meaning that grammar adds (past tense, plural, and so on)相對於文法額外加上去的意思(像過去式、複數之類的) People also talk about a lexical decision人們也會談到lexical decision (choosing this word rather than that one)(選這個字而不是那個字) and a learner's lexical knowledge還有學習者的lexical knowledge (how many words they really command)(他們真正掌握多少字彙)
It is a dry, classroom adjective, and it stays an adjective: the matching nouns are , lexicon, or just vocabulary.
It is a dry, classroom adjective這是個很枯燥的課堂用形容詞 and it stays an adjective而且它一直都是形容詞 the matching nouns are lexis, lexicon, or just vocabulary對應的名詞是lexis、lexicon,或直接說vocabulary
組成Greek lexis (“word, speech”) + English -al (“of / relating to”).
同家族的字
- lexisthe noun from the same Greek lexis: the words of a language
- lexiconsame lex- root: a dictionary, or the words someone knows
- lexicographylexico- (“of words”) + -graphy: the work of writing dictionaries
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lexicaladj/ˈlɛksɪkəl/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesConcerning the vocabulary, words, sentences 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).
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesConcerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesDenoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
- a lexical verb
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computingengineeringmathematicsRelating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。