Szókincselemnek

Szókincselemnek is the dative singular form of szókincselem, a Hungarian term used in linguistics to denote a single lexical item, or lexeme, within a language’s vocabulary. The base form szókincselem is built from szókincs (vocabulary) and elem (element), and is used to refer to a unit of the lexicon rather than to any particular surface form.

A szókincselem represents the abstract unit of meaning and grammatical behavior associated with a word, encoding its core sense, part of speech, and typical syntactic properties. This abstraction allows linguists to analyze words independently of their inflected variations, which are considered separate surface realizations of the same lexeme.

In Hungarian usage, szókincselem is often treated as synonymous with the English term lexeme or, in some contexts, with lemma. Some texts distinguish lemma as the canonical or dictionary form, while szókincselem emphasizes the unit of the lexicon itself. The term szókincselemnek, as a grammatical form, appears when the lexeme is referenced in a dative or related syntactic construction.

Applications of the concept include lexicography, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and language teaching, where szókincselemek serve as the fundamental units for annotation, analysis, and dictionary organization. Metadata typically associated with a szókincselem includes its part of speech, semantic field, typical collocations, and cross-linguistic equivalents.

See also: szókincs, lexeme, lexicon, lemma, szavak alakjai.