Lexical verb

 ( Verb Types ) 

In linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of that includes all verbs except . Lexical verbs typically express action, state, or other predicate meaning. In contrast, auxiliary verbs express Grammar meaning. The verb phrase of a sentence is generally headed by a lexical verb.Crystal, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics (5th edition). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Lexical verbs are categorized into five categories: copular, intransitive, Transitive verb, ditransitive, and ambitransitive.Hopper, Paul J. 1999. A short course in grammar. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.Huddleston, Rodney. 1984. Introduction to the grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The descriptor lexical is applied to the of a language's lexicon, often to indicate a Lexical item, as distinct from a function word.

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See also

• Light verb

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