Lexical
Of or relating to the vocabulary, words, or morphemes of a language.
is something that relates to vocabulary or the words which make up a language.
Lexical features: whole word, prefix/suffix (various lengths possible), stemmed word, lemmatized word.
Lexical meaning is defined as the meaning of a base or root word without considering any prefix or suffix which may be attached.
Lexical phrases are sequences of words that collocate, are often idiomatic, have a high-frequency of occurrence, and perform specific rhetorical functions that can be applied across multiple disciplines and discourse types.
Lexical phrases, (first mentioned in 1975 by Becker) are multi-word chunks of language of varying length that collocate, are often idiomatic, have a high-frequency of occurrence, and perform specific rhetorical functions
that run on a continuum from fixed phrases like in a nutshell to slot- and- filler frames like the ___er, the ___er.
Lexical field or semantic field depends on the way of organizing related words and expressions into a system which shows their relationship to one another.
A semantic field corresponds to the semantic options (concepts) you have for a particular slot in a clause while a lexical field corresponds to the lexical options (terms) you have for the same slot.
For instance, one person may say "yesterday I met my nanny" while another person may say "yesterday I met my grandma". These clauses represent identical events, that is, they are semantically equivalent, but they represent the identical events with different terms, namely "nanny" versus "grandma".One way of describing English consists of assuming that "nanny" and "grandma" are different terms associated with the same concept. Since these are different terms, they are two options within the same lexical field.
