... is the sum total of the knowledge of the vocabulary of a language that we have stored in our minds. Although there is some debate as to which types of properties, and their description, should be represented in the lexicon, there is some consensus. For now and for the purposes of this discussion we will consider the syntactic or categorial properties e.g., whether the word is a noun, verb or some other category, the semantic properties, i.e., the meaning of the words and the phonological properties i.e., the pronunciation of the words. Let us discuss each of these properties in turn. The meaning of a word, although of great relevance to the understanding of the sentence, is not of great relevance to the structure of the sentence. As Sausure stated, the meaning of a word is arbitrary and does not have to be linked to the word itself. The pronunciation ...

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