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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lexicalize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressed by a word
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Examples
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It was Michael Lewis who was the first to popularize the view that “language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalized grammar” (1993, p. 34).
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It was Michael Lewis who was the first to popularize the view that “language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalized grammar” (1993, p. 34).
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It was Michael Lewis who was the first to popularize the view that “language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalized grammar” 1993, p.
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It was Michael Lewis who was the first to popularize the view that “language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalized grammar” 1993, p.
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Collocations that occur often enough become lexicalized as new compound words.
"Did he just say 'orgy'?!" Ann Althouse 2008
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Logical concepts tend not to be lexicalized if they are commonly conveyed by implicature.
Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005
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