Talk:Lexicon

Merge Lexicon and Mental Lexicon
This entry and Mental lexicon do not seem very discrete. Why not merge then? 5pm.hazyblue (talk) 09:21, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Vocabulary and mental lexicon probably have the most overlap; I've added merge tags. -- Beland (talk) 18:54, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

I believe, strongly, that Mental lexicon should not be merged with either of these at all.
 * Lexicon is germane to lexicography, from the analytical perspective of the entire wordstock of a language, field or other body of knowledge, as evidenced by the set of existing texts
 * Vocabulary is germane to language acquisition, i.e. from the experiential perspective of the learner, reader, observers, etc., as evidenced by its users' understanding of a field or its discourses
 * Mental lexicon is germane to semantics, i.e. from the analytical perspective of a specific term itself and its relationships to other terms, as evidenced by meanings

-SM 03:16, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree, the actual content of each of these pages seems sufficiently field specific to warrant them remaining separate. TripleShortOfACycle (talk) 22:35, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Split and merge from Lexis (linguistics)?
To quickly contrast with the failed RMerge above, lexis is often a direct synonym for lexicon, and much of the article's content seems to be about the term in that synonymous sense. That content should be incorporated here, and the scope of the article adjusted in kind, likely to something like Lexis (functional linguistics). There are so many odd linguistics articles that overlap... Remsense 诉  01:02, 3 May 2024 (UTC)