Talk:Lemmatisation

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[edit] lemma vs lexeme

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The combination of the base form with the part of speech is often called the 'lexeme' of the word.

I don't know who uses this terminology, but e.g. Lauri Bauer uses it slightly differently in his textbook Introducing Linguistic Morphology: "A lexeme is a dictionary word, an abstract unit of vocabulary. It is realised [...] by word-forms, in such a way that the word-form represents the lexeme and any inflectional endings [...] that are required." So I think that base form + pos are properties of a lexeme but not the lexeme itself. I'd say that 'lexeme' is just a word for 'word', in the sense of 'word' where tree and trees are both the same word. -- Mumpitz 20:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)