The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by Unknown

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lexical ambiguity.

Ambiguity explained by reference to lexical meanings: e.g. that of I saw a bat, where a bat might refer to an animal or, among others, a table tennis bat. Cf. grammatical ambiguity.

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lexical category.

A class of units which have lexical meaning or are, in general, treated in the lexicon: e.g. noun as a category of words or morphemes such as tree or sky.

Used in Government and Binding Theory specifically of the syntactic categories noun (N), adjective (A), verb (V), and preposition (P), which in applications of X-bar syntax are the lexical categories opposed to the non-lexical I (INFL), etc.

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