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Lexeme vs Sememe - What's the difference?

lexeme | sememe |

In linguistics terms the difference between lexeme and sememe

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 sememe is the smallest unit of meaning; especially the meaning expressed by a morpheme.

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

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    See also

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

    sememe

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia sememe) (en noun)
  • (linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning; especially the meaning expressed by a morpheme.