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Grammatical vs Lexeme - What's the difference?

grammatical | lexeme |

In linguistics terms the difference between grammatical and lexeme

is that grammatical is acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language while lexeme is roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term).

As an adjective grammatical

is acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.

As a noun lexeme is

roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term).

grammatical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (linguistics) Acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.
  • Your writing is not grammatical enough for publication.
  • Of or pertaining to grammar.
  • My friend used a grammatical textbook to support her argument.

    Antonyms

    * (acceptable) ungrammatical

    Derived terms

    * grammatical aspect * grammaticality * grammatical mood * grammaticalness

    lexeme

    English

    (wikipedia lexeme)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term).
  • (computing) an individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token)
  • Usage notes

    * (term), (term), (term) and (term) are variations of the English lexeme (run); whereas (term) and (term) aren’t: they are forms of the lexeme (runner). * Both contain the morpheme (term), which is a root form referring to “skin”. This is not a lexeme, though.

    Derived terms

    * *

    See also

    * chereme * chroneme * grapheme * lingueme * listeme * morpheme * phoneme * term * toneme * word ----