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2. Word-form
As we have just seen above, sometimes, when we use the term ‘word’ , it is
not the abstract vocabulary item with a common core of meaning, the lexeme,
that we want to refer to. Rather, we may use the term ‘word’ to refer to a
particular physical realization of that lexeme in speech or writing, i.e. a
particular word – form. Thus, we refer “to see, sees, seeing, saw and seen” as
five different words. In this sense, three different occurrences of any one of
these word-form “see” has three letters and the word-form “seeing” has six.
And, if we were counting the number of words in a passage, we would gladly
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English Morpho - Syntax
count see, sees, seeing, saw and seen as five different word-forms but belonging
to the same lexeme.
Activity 1
Which ones of the words in below belong to the lexeme?
1.
see
2.
sleeps
3.
boys
4.
seeing
5.
catches
6.
woman
7.
sleep
8.
jump
9.
taller
10.
catch
11.
seen
12.
women
13.
boy
14.
saw
15.
tall
16.
slept
17.
catching
18.
tallest
19.
jumped
20.
jumps
21.
sees
22.
sleeping
23.
caught
24.
jumping
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