Lexicography Terms

noun a word that is related to vocabulary or words

adjective relating to words or the vocabulary of a language

• The lexical analysis of the text revealed a high frequency of technical terms.
• I'm not sure what all these lexical terms mean in the book.
• I don't get all the fancy lexical jargon they use in this article.
• The lexical landscape of the language is vast and ever-evolving.

noun a unit of vocabulary recognized by the grammar of a language

• A lexeme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language, such as a word or a morpheme.
• I learned about the concept of lexeme in my linguistics class.
• I have to look up the meaning of this lexeme in the dictionary.
• The lexeme 'run' can have multiple meanings depending on the context.

noun a linguistic approach that describes how language is actually used by speakers, rather than prescribing how it should be used

• Descriptivism is a linguistic theory that focuses on how language is actually used by speakers.
• Some linguists prefer descriptivism over prescriptivism because it reflects the reality of language usage.
• I'm all about that descriptivism life - language is always changing and evolving.
• In the world of language, descriptivism is like going with the flow rather than swimming against the current.