What is the difference between lexeme and morpheme?
lexeme | morpheme |
(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)
(linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
Morpheme is a related term of lexeme.
As nouns the difference between lexeme and morpheme
is that 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) while morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".lexeme
English
(wikipedia lexeme)Noun
(en noun)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 ----morpheme
English
(wikipedia morpheme)Noun
(en noun)- The word pigs'' consists of two morphemes : ''pig'' (a particular animal) and ''s'' (indication of the plural).
- The word werewolves''' consists of four morphemes: "''were''" (~ man), "''wolf''" (a particular animal), "''es " (plural), and " ' " (indicating possessive).