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Encyclopedia > Lexemes

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A lexeme is a unit of linguistic analysis. It belongs to a particular syntactic category and has a particular meaning (semantic value). Lexemes may be simple words, phrasal and compound words and shortened forms. A lexicon consists of lexemes.


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Lexeme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (315 words)
A lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of words that are "the same" in basic meaning.
A related concept is the lemma (or citation form), which is a particular form of a lexeme that is chosen by convention to represent a canonical form of a lexeme.
A lexeme belongs to a particular syntactic category, has a particular meaning (semantic value), and in inflecting languages, has a corresponding inflectional paradigm; that is, a lexeme in many languages will have many different forms.
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