Glossary term L

Lexical Verb

A lexical verb is a member of the open class of verbs which form the primary verb vocabulary of a language.

The adjective lexical is applied generally to the vocabulary of a language, especially to distinguish content words from function words.

(English)

The verb come in will be coming is a lexical verb.

  1. Crystal 1985, 326
  2. Mish 1991, 687
  3. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 96
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