leksemides
A leksem is a fundamental unit of meaning in linguistics, often equated with a word. However, the concept of a leksem is more abstract than a word as it encompasses all inflected forms of a single lexical item. For example, the leksem "run" would include "run," "runs," "ran," and "running." It represents the core semantic content that remains consistent across these variations.
The term leksem is particularly useful in fields like computational linguistics and lexicography, where understanding the
Distinguishing between a word and a leksem is important. A word is a surface form, a string