The Lexical Stock's Subsets
The lexical stock of English can be classified into word classes, which are groups of words that have particular characteristics. These characteristics could be morphological or functional. Nouns in English are not indicated for tense, and predicatives are not marked for animateness, hence they belong to separate word classes. If the grammar to which the lexicographer corresponds is not the traditional one, the subsets may be the same as those of traditional grammar, or they may be different.
To be Coded Information
The information that should be coded in a particular lexicon is determined by its intended use; in other words, information that will be required for a certain purpose or group of purposes, or information that has a predictable use, should be coded. The computer-stored lexicon must have 1) word class information for identifying nominals and modifiers, as well as conjunctions, punctuation, and adverbs intervening between the modifiers, and other word classes, tokens of which designate the boundaries of a block; and 2) case, number, and gender information in order to construct a relationship of agreement between the nominal and the preceding modifiers.
Compiling the Information
Discovering facts about a language and organizing these data in such a way that they can be easily accessed is the process of compiling a dictionary. The crucial factor is that once a statement is made about a specific member of a word Class, all other members of that class must be coded in the same way. It may be necessary to create a new word class for specific members if the statement is irrelevant to them. The following approach can be used to create a vocabulary with no gaps: Create a matrix for each word class in which each column head represents a piece of information about the class, and the row heads represent all of the words in the class. Each intersection must have a code that indicates whether or not the word has the property, and the codes for the properties must allow for the full range of possible solutions.
Most existing English lexicons contain the usual morphological information for members of inflected word classes: person, gender, number, case, animation, paradigm, aspect, etc.. Certain syntactic information such as impersonality and government of cases, prepositions, the infinitive, and clauses, is indicated for verbal word classes. This indication may be explicit or sometimes only implicit in an example; it is not consistent. It's not uncommon to come across one of the predicative complements under the entry head of another predicative for which an example is supplied.
Each lexical entry should incorporate all of the head word's current phonological, morphological, and syntactic information; the discussion and presentation of this information will require the introduction of semantics and stylistic notions.
According to the study on English lexicons, we can see the different types of lexicons. They are:
A visual lexicon
A generative lexicon
A mental lexicon
Lexicon core
A communicative lexicon
and others.33 They mean differently and are used in verified ways of vocabularies and dictionaries based on their specialized fields.
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