lexicalist

adjective

lex·​i·​cal·​ist

ˈleksə̇kələ̇st

: of, being, or relating to an approach to grammar in which syntactic structures are derived from properties of lexemes rather than from a large set of transformations

Word History

Etymology

lexical + -ist entry 2

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