lexeme

English - Turkish

Definition of lexeme in English Turkish dictionary

(Dilbilim) sözcükbirim

sözlükbirim

sözcükbirim, sözlük birim

Related Terms

lexeme stratum

(Dilbilim) sözlükbirim katmanı

English - English

Definition of lexeme in English English dictionary

Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term)

a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'

The smallest contrastive unit in a semantic system (a lexical item), e g , run, cat, mat)

{i} basic unit of the lexicon of a language; vocabulary item

The abstract unit of vocabulary, roughly corresponding to the set of words that are different forms of the same lemma

the basic abstract entity in the mental lexicon that corresponds to a set of different word-forms which realise that lexeme Written with capital letters serves as head term à ( GO)

The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language Lexemes are complimented by morphemes For example, the lexeme do changes its meaning if combined with the morphemes -es, -ing, -ne Yet, in the word construction, the con- and -ion are morphemes, while the lexeme -struct- has become meaningless in contemporary English

Hyphenation

lex·eme

Etymology

[ 'lek-"sEm ] (noun.) 1940. Greek lexis word, speech + English -eme.