Lexical Noun

AKA: Lexicalized Noun.
Context:
- It can belong to a Lexical Noun Class.
- It can range from being a Base Noun (such as “boy”, “Michael”) to being a Compound Noun (such as “boyfriend”, “king of the hill”, and “IBM Auditorium”).
- It can range from being a Common Noun (such as “boy”) to being a Proper Noun (such as “IBM”).
- It can range from being a Concrete Noun ("bumble bee”) to being an Abstract Noun ("beauty)".

Example(s):
- Concrete Nouns, such as: rock and planet.
  - Proper Nouns, such as: "Michael", and "Michael Jackson"
- Common Nouns, such as: "singer” and "singers".
- Abstract Nouns, such as: bravery and homonym.
- English Lexical Noun [1], German Lexical Noun, Chinese Lexical Noun, ...
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Pronouns.
- a Lexical Verb.
See: Lexicalization ..

References

(Crystal, 2008) ⇒ David Crystal. (2008). “A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th edition." Blackwell Publishing.
- QUOTE: Lexis may be seen in contrast with GRAMMAR, as in the distinction between 'grammatical WORDS' and lexical words: the former refers to words whose sole function is to signal grammatical relationships (a role which is claimed for such words as of, to and the in English); the latter refers to words which have lexical meaning, i.e. they have semantic CONTENT. Examples include lexical verbs (versus auxiliary verbs) and lexical noun phrases (versus non-lexical NPs, such as PRO). A similar contrast distinguishes lexical morphology from derivational MORPHOLOGY.