Examples of lexeme in the following topics:
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- Five major components of the structure of language are phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, syntax, and context.
- Lexemes
are the
set of inflected forms taken by a single word.
- For example, members of the
lexeme RUN include "run" (the uninflected form), "running"
(inflected form), and "ran."
- This lexeme excludes "runner"
(a derived term—it has a derivational morpheme attached).
- Another way to think
about lexemes is that they are the set of words that would be included under
one entry in the dictionary—"running" and "ran" would be
found under "run," but "runner" would not.