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  2. Lexicology - Wikipedia

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    Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language.A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elements known as phonemes, or distinguishing sounds.

  3. Lexicography - Wikipedia

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    Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. [1] It is divided into two separate academic disciplines : Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries .

  4. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus.

  5. Lexical resource - Wikipedia

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    Different standards for the machine-readable edition of lexical resources exist, e.g., Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) an ISO standard for encoding lexical resources, comprising an abstract data model and an XML serialization, [2] and OntoLex-Lemon, an RDF vocabulary for publishing lexical resources as knowledge graphs on the web, e.g., as Linguistic Linked Open Data.

  6. Lexis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Metaphoric: concepts such as time and money, business and sex, systems and water, all share a large portion of the same vocabulary; Grammatical: it uses rules based on sampling of the lexical corpus; Register-specific: it uses the same word differently and/or less frequently in different contexts

  7. Lexicon - Wikipedia

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    A lexicon (plural: lexicons, rarely lexica) is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical).In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes.

  8. Lemma (morphology) - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. English lexicology and lexicography - Wikipedia

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    English lexicology and lexicography is that field in English language studies which examines English lexicon, English word-formation, the evolution of vocabulary and the composition of English dictionaries.