lexicalization

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L5150250 (lĕk′ĭ-kə-līz′)tr.v. lex·i·cal·ized, lex·i·cal·iz·ing, lex·i·cal·iz·es Linguistics 1. To express using a word or words: a language that lexicalizes the concept of time.2. To incorporate into a language as a new word: a language that has lexicalized expressions from its dialects.3. To treat (a phrase, expression, or other group of morphemes) as a single word: The word "pick-me-up

lex′i·cal·iza′tion (-kə-lĭ-zā′shən) n.

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lexicalization - the process of making a word to express a conceptlexicalisationlinguistic process - a process involved in human language

Lexicalization

the transformation of certain language elements or combinations of them into vocabulary units—lexemes or phraseological combinations.

Lexicalization of syntactic combinations supplements the phraseology of a national language; the meaning of words entering into a phraseologism changes completely or partially (Russian derzhat’ kamen ’za pazukhoi, “to harbor a grudge,” literally, “to keep a stone in one’s bosom”). In some instances the lexicalization of word combinations is a word-formative process, the result of which is concretions (plashch-palatka, “waterproof cape”), abbreviations (vuz for vysshee uchebnoe zavedenie, “institution of higher education,” and mestkom for mestnyi komitet, “local trade union committee”), and adverbs such as smolodu (”from one’s youth”) and podelom (”it serves [him] right”).

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noun the process of making a word to express a concept

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