Everything about Lexeme
Unit of lexical meaning
A lexeme is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word. For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, which can be represented as RUN. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: LexemeA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Linguistic Embodiment of Values in Internet Media Discourse: A Corpus Analysis of Representative Contexts (the Lexeme ‘po-khoroshemu’)Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Was ist aus den Neologismen der Wendezeit geworden?The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: On Defining Lexeme in a Signed LanguageCited 104 times
- Go sideways: Word stemA closely related topic
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📖 Definitions
Noun A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form. The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
Noun The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
Noun The set itself; a lexemic family.
Noun The wordform chosen to represent such a set or family.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
On Defining Lexeme in a Signed Language
A database of 629 English compound words: ratings of familiarity, lexeme meaning dominance, semantic transparency, age of acquisition, imageability, and sensory experience
Grapheme-to-lexeme feedback in the spelling system: Evidence from a dysgraphic patient
Do transposed-letter effects occur across lexeme boundaries?
A comparison of lexeme and speech syllables in Dutch
Eye movements during the reading of compound words and the influence of lexeme meaning
Morpheme order in a lexeme/morpheme-based morphology
A statistical approach to rivalry in lexeme formation: French -iser and -ifier
🆕 Influential since 2022
Linguistic Embodiment of Values in Internet Media Discourse: A Corpus Analysis of Representative Contexts (the Lexeme ‘po-khoroshemu’)
TeLeS: Temporal Lexeme Similarity Score to Estimate Confidence in End-to-End ASR
Lexeme connexion measure of cohesive lexical ambiguity revealing factor: a robust approach for word sense disambiguation of Bengali text
From objective to subjective and to intersubjective functions: The case of the Thai ‘truth’-lexeme
Exploring the dynamics of Shannon’s information and iconicity in language processing and lexeme evolution
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Was ist aus den Neologismen der Wendezeit geworden?Doris Steffens · 2015
- 📕Značennjevyj obsjah prostorovych leksem ta i͏̈ch funkcionuvannja v systemi nimecʹkoi͏̈ movy: diachroničnyj aspektNatalja V. Romanova · 2007
- 📕The semantics of ancient Hebrew colour lexemesJohn E. Hartley · 2010
Wegmetaphorik Im Alten Testament (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fhur die Alttestamentliche Wissensc)Markus Philipp Zehnder · 1998
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