Meaning of lexical item | Babel Free

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A term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.

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“He also realized that by comparing different types of text you may be able to spot "a different density ( repetition rate ) of lexical items, and different degrees of cohesion, in the short story and in the novel.”

“It is not surprising that this is a very common structure in language, because it allows the flexibility that was identified earlier in this paper as essential for an adequate lexical item.”

“A lexical item, or lexeme, is a dictionary word, an item which you would expect to find having its own entry in a dictionary.”

“The meaning of lexical items may be described in terms of combinations of semantic features.”

“Thus there are 3751 lexical items covered in total. Taking into account polysemy, there are 4315 separate senses.”

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