| Lemma | lexical form |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
| Titolo | Language |
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| Citazioni | When we have occasion to contrast the purely lexical character of a linguistic form with the habits of arrangement to which it is subject, we shall speak of it as a 'lexical form'. Any actual utterance can be fully described in terms of the lexical form and the accompanying grammatical features. Every lexical form is connected in two directions with grammatical forms. On the one side, the lexical form, even when taken by itself, in the abstract, exhibits a meaningful grammatical structure. If it is a complex form, it shows some morphologic or syntactic construction [...] if it is a morpheme, it may still exhibit morphologic features [...] |