Pukeutuvatlemmaa

Pukeutuvatlemmaa is a coined term used in linguistic theory to illustrate a class of lemmas formed by productive inflection in morphologically rich languages such as Finnish. The term does not appear in standard Finnish lexicography; it is used primarily in pedagogical and experimental contexts to discuss lemmatization and lexical identity.

Etymology and formation: The compound is built from the Finnish verb pukeutua "to dress" in its third-person plural present form pukeutuvat and the noun lemma, here used in the sense of dictionary headword. In this instructional scenario, pukeutuvatlemmaa represents a single lemma that corresponds to the surface sequence pukeutuvatlemmaa, serving as a testing unit for annotation schemes that must decide whether to segment inflected forms into a finite verb and a headword, or to treat the whole surface form as one lemma.

Applications and significance: Pukeutuvatlemmaa is used to illustrate challenges in lemmatization for languages with rich morphology and compounding. It helps researchers discuss how different corpora and NLP tools interpret surface forms that resemble both inflected paradigms and lexemes, and how to annotate them consistently.

Examples and notes: In historical or experimental corpora, a tool might tag pukeutuvatlemmaa as a single lemma or as the two-unit analysis pukeutuvat + lemmaa. The term remains a hypothetical construct and should be cited as such. See also lemmatization, morphological analysis, multiword expressions.