Lexical redundancy rule, or lexical rule, have been proposed as a mechanism that relates entries in the mental lexicon [Aronoff, M., 1976, "Word formation in generative grammar", MIT Press, Cambridge; Jackendoff, R., 1975, Morphological and semantic regularities in the lexicon, in "Language" 51, pp. 639-671; Bresnan, J., 1978, A realistic transformational grammar, in Halle, M., Bresnan, J., andg Miller, G., eds, "Linguistic theory and psychological reality", MIT Press, Cambridge; 1982b, "The passive in lexical theory, in Bresnan, J., ed., "The mental representation of grammatical relations", MIT Press, Cambridge; 1982d, Polyadicity, in Bresnan, J., ed., "The mental representation of grammatical relations, MIT Press, Cambridge]. Lexical rules have an obvious use in characterizing related words like "tie" and "untie" or "buckle" and "unbuckle", and Bresnan [Bresnan, J., 1978, A realistic transformational grammar, in Halle, M., Bresnan, J., andg Miller, G., eds, "Linguistic theory and psychological reality", MIT Press, Cambridge] has shown how they might be used to relate parallel sets of verb subcategorizations as well. [...] lexical rules can specify syntactic, semantic, and morphological differences between related verbs. [...] They can be interpreted as operations that take one lexical entry as input, and alter or supplement that entry with new information to create a second entry.
- Pinker (2004), a pag.242