
linguistics - What exactly is a lexeme? - English Language & Usage ...
2016年9月27日 · A lexeme is a lemma (what you called a “'base' word”) plus its inflected forms. In linguistic articles, you often find lexemes displayed as the lemma in small capital letters. It's also useful to say what a lexeme is not: not derived words that aren't inflections. For example, the lexeme BANK (noun) consists of bank and banks, but not banker.
What are lexemes and morphemes? [closed] - English Language
2015年8月8日 · As I understand it, all the words go, goes, went, and going are variants of the same "lexeme". But cats consists of two "morphemes", because the pluralising s contains meaning in and of itself . – FumbleFingers
User lexeme - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
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auxiliary verbs - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Am, Is, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been What are the above words called? I think someone called them auxiliary verbs. Edit: When I learned them, my curriculum called them "State of Being verbs" or...
'may be' or 'might be'? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2022年3月14日 · For many speakers (especially younger ones) ,"might" is no longer the preterite of "may", but a distinct lexeme that is largely interchangeable with "may". – BillJ Commented Mar 14, 2022 at 9:45
Does one eat soup or drink soup? [closed] - English Language
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Suffixing by "-rama", "-orama" or "-arama" — how did this begin?
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adjectives - Word for doing something only because it provokes a ...
Some people act in ways that provoke surprised or shocked reactions from others, mainly because they enjoy getting those reactions and not because of any inherent desire to perform the action itsel...
Is there a difference between "opt" and "choose"?
As it is stated here:. Choose is the most general of these words and the only one that can be used without an object.
grammatical number - Singular or plural of 'infrastructure'
2020年4月16日 · The choice between using the singular arguably count ('the existing infrastructure') or unarguably non-count ('existing infrastructure') (anarthrous, ie no article) of the lexeme is yours, though these Google n-grams ('using existing infrastructure', 'using the existing infrastructure', 'using existing infrastructures') would seem to support my ...