In generative semantics, a procedure applied especially to causatives for the semantic description of lexical units by deriving them from an inventory of smallest (possibly universal) basic expressions ( semantic primitives), which on the basis of...

Basic abstract unit of the lexicon2 on the level of langue ( langue vs parole) which may be realized in different grammatical forms such as the lexeme write in writes, wrote, written. A lexeme may also be a part of another lexeme, e.g. writer,...

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A lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of words that are different forms of the same word. For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme,...