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In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (pl.: lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, [1] dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. [2] In English, for example, break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking are forms of the same lexeme, with break as the lemma by which they are indexed.
An example of this is the verb break in English. (1) He broke the cup. (2) The cup broke. In (1), the verb is transitive, and the subject is the agent of the action, i.e. the performer of the action of breaking the cup.
break – broke – broken outbreak – outbroke – outbroken rebreak – rebroke – rebroken: Strong, class 4: breed – bred – bred inbreed – inbred – inbred interbreed – interbred – interbred overbreed – overbred – overbred: Weak, class 1: With coalescence of dentals and vowel shortening bring – brought – brought: Weak ...
Broken English is a term often used to describe non-standard, non-traditionally spoken or alternatively-written version of the English language.It's important to note that this term is often considered derogatory and has been used to invalidate non-standard or "low prestige" varieties of English, particularly those that arose in the context of colonialism or language contact between multiple ...
For example, bore and found may be past tenses of bear and find, but may also represent independent (regular) verbs of different meaning. Another example is lay, which may be the past tense of lie, but is also an independent verb (regular in pronunciation, but with irregular spelling: lay–laid–laid).
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By contrast, with a labile verb the role of the subject changes; consider "it broke the window" (transitive) and "the window broke" (intransitive). Labile verbs can be divided into several categories: Verbs suggesting a change of state – break, burst, form, heal, melt, tear, transform; Verbs of cooking – bake, boil, cook, fry