Sentence examples for lexical flexibility from inspiring English sources

It demonstrates the widest range of semantic extension and lexical flexibility.

Chief Justice John Roberts relied on such lexical flexibility last week in upholding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The main novelty is that the content of examination records (images and context) is characterized at multiple levels of spatial and lexical granularity: 1) spatial flexibility is ensured by an adaptive decomposition of composite retinal images into a cascade of regions, 2) lexical granularity is ensured by an adaptive decomposition of the feature space into a cascade of visual words.

In other functional approaches, the need for flexibility in lexical representation is being identified.

It is through lexical resources that languages maintain the flexibility their open-ended commitments demand.

This was true for anagrams as well as other verbal problem solving tasks requiring flexibility of access to lexical, semantic and associative networks.

Propranolol, a β-adrenergic antagonist, appears to affect flexibility of access to lexical, semantic and associative networks on verbal problem solving tasks in individuals without neurodevelopmental diagnoses (Beversdorf et al. 1999).

Secondly, Mandarin seems to allow more flexibility in argument expression and one lexical form may be mapped to more than one grammatical function, which leads to a further discussion of the range of form-meaning mapping relations manifested in polysemous EPs.

First, with its emphasis on the principles of semantic change, historical-philological semantics was the first systematic framework to focus on the dynamic nature of word meaning, and to see the contextual flexibility of words as the primary phenomenon that a lexical semantic theory should aim to account for (Nerlich & Clarke 1996, 2007).

While Kirrkirr already provides a number of interfaces to the lexical information, the challenge of creating new features and providing even greater flexibility lies in allowing the user to access certain parts of the XML database without the overhead of greater memory and time usage.

This suggests that in terms of lexical representation that there is one lexeme which encodes this type of flexibility but this is not true of all nouns or verbs so there must be something specific to this set (see Davies, 2004).