LEXICALIZATION
(Morphology) The addition of new open-class elements to a repository of holistically processed linguistic units. At the basis of lexicalization are word-formation processes such as affixation, compounding, or borrowing, which are a necessary precondition for lexicalization. Still, lexicalization goes beyond word formation in important respects. First, lexicalization also involves multi-word expressions and set phrases; second, it includes a range of processes that follow the coinage of a new element.
 These processes conjointly lead to holistic processing, that is, the cognitive treatment of a linguistic element as a unified whole. Holistic processing contrasts with analytic processing, which is the cognitive treatment of a linguistic unit as a complex whole that is composed of several parts. Lexicalization is usefully contrasted with grammaticalization, that is, the emergence of new linguistic units that fulfill grammatical functions. Finally, lexicalization is also a concept that lends itself to the study of cross-linguistic differences in the types of meaning that are lexicalized in specific domains such as, for example, motion. | Martin Hilpert, 2019

LEXICOGRAMMAR
(Grammar) Or, lexico-grammar. A level of linguistic structure where lexis, or vocabulary, and grammar, or syntax, combine into one. At this level, words and grammatical structures are not seen as independent, but rather mutually dependent, with one level interfacing with the other.
 Lexicogrammar has been studied in various ways, through such notions as collocation, colligation, phraseology, lexical pattern, chunk, lexical bundle, formulaic language, and lexical frame, among others. The separation between lexis and grammar has been one of the cornerstones of linguistic scholarship, being incarnated in the dictionary and grammar, the two main reference points for language study. However, systemic functional linguistics and corpus linguistics, each in its own way, reunite these two levels, and, despite some divergence, advocate the uninterrupted continuity between and/or fusion of lexis and grammar. | Tony Berber Sardinha, 2019

LEXIS
(Lexis) As Halliday said of Firth:

At a time when few linguists, other than lexicographers themselves, devoted much attention to the study of lexis, and outlines of linguistics often contained little reference to dictionaries or other methods in lexicology, J.R. Firth repeatedly stressed the importance of lexical studies in descriptive linguistics. He did not accept the equation of "lexical" with "semantic", and he showed that it was both possible and useful to make formal statements about lexical items and their relations. (Halliday 1966)

LIBFIX

1. (Morphology) Parts of words that share properties with both blends, compounds and affixes. They are deliberate formations, often with a jocular character, e.g. nerdalicious 'delicious for nerds', or scientainment 'scientific entertainment'. These are not one-off formations—some libfixes have become very productive, as evidenced by high type frequency in a single corpus.
    Libfix constructions do not always have discrete morpheme boundaries; they feature a wide variety of bases (including phrases, as in give-me-a-break-o-meter); and they may be the source of back formations such as infotain. | Muriel Nurde and Sarah Sippach, 2019
2. (Morphology) "Various comments on word endings last week and this have persuaded me to add three entries to my site about the building blocks of English: the three are -tard, -flation and -naut," wrote Michael Quinion (2010).
    Playful word formation, portmanteau words, and the "liberation" of parts of words (like the three Quinion just listed), combine to yield word-forming elements that are semantically like the elements of compounds but are affix-like in that they are typically bound.
    Playful word formation—sometimes called expressive word formation, but neither label is entirely satisfactory—picks out patterns of word formation that have a playful or show-offy character to them; instances of these patterns often strike people as innovations and as decidedly informal. Some playful examples have the liberated elements that Quinion calls combining forms (but also classifies as prefixes or suffixes on the basis of their position within words), for instance -licious and its variants.
    Quinion's combining forms include both liberated elements and elements from complex learnèd forms, as in thermometer. It would be nice to have a term for the liberated elements that is both more memorable than "combining forms" and also signals the origin of these elements in the reanalysis of existing words (whether the source words are ordinary words, as with -tacular, or portmanteaus, as with -dar). I suggest "libfix", which can be labeled a prelibfix (prefixal) or a postlibfix (suffixal) when its position within the word is especially relevant. | Arnold Zwicky, 2010

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