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Lexeme
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(grammar)lexeme - A minimal lexical unit of a language. Lexical analysis converts strings in a language into a list of lexemes. For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals and punctutation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis.
Lexeme 

a unit of the lexical level of language, of its vocabulary.

The lexeme is the same type of abstract linguistic unit as the phoneme, morpheme, syntagma, sememe, and grapheme. It represents a word in all its forms and meanings; for example, all the forms of the word iazyk, “tongue,” and the different meanings of these forms in various contexts, such as iazyk oblozhen, “coated tongue,” russkii iazyk, “Russian language,” and iazyk proizvedeniia, “language of a literary work,” are identical as representatives of one and the same lexeme iazyk.
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Focusing on morphology as one of the levels of linguistic representation and grammar, corpus annotations tend to be lexeme and word-form oriented, PoS-tags for lexemes in the corpus, rather than segmentation of word-forms into morphemes and allomorphs with their particular feature annotation.
Efficient morphological parsing with a weighted finite state ... by Cavar, Damir; Jazbec, Ivo-Pavao; Runjaic, Sinisa / Informatica
Likewise, he hits paydirt with the observation that "[i]n practical terms, there were two main results of this fascination with individual phrases and lexemes, and his endless patience: Tolkien's reinterpretation of certain old texts, which helped enhance his scholarly reputation, and the obtainment of an enormous lexicon for his private languages and fiction" (82).
Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory In Tolkien by Fisher, Jason / Mythlore
27) Pronouns are high-frequency lexemes and tend to behave morphologically differently, being frequently suppletive in a cross-linguistic perspective.
A note on personal pronouns in Enets and Northern Samoyedic/[TEXT NOT ... by Siegl, Florian / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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