Miller [Miller, G. A., 1978, Semantic relations among words, in Halle, M., Bresnan, J., and Miller, G. A., eds., “Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality”, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts] has set out the following "minimal list" of the kinds of information the lexicon would contain for each lexical entry. It is minimal in the sense that every (literate) speaker of the language would have to have access to this information for each word in order to use it properly [Miller, G. A., 1978, Semantic relations among words, in Halle, M., Bresnan, J., and Miller, G. A., eds., “Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality”, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts pp. 62-63]. A. Pronunciation (and spelling for written languages) (i) Phonology (including stress features) (ii) Morphology (including inflected and derived forms). B. Syntactic categorization (i) Major category (N, V, A, P...) (ii) Subcategory (syntactic contexts into which it can go). C. Meaning (i) Definition (concept expressed; relation to other concepts) (ii) Selection restrictions (semantic context). D. Pragmatic constraints (i) Situation (relation to general knowledge) (ii) Rhetoric (relation to discourse contexts) [...].
- Butterworth (2004), a pag.2