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Introduction

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The basic dictionary division is the entry. The entries of UW are the forms of tokens in some language.

Form

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A form is the most difficult thing to define exactly. By form we understand what the general public refers to by word or phrase.

Examples of forms

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  • form
  • :
  • kick the bucket
  • forms
  • formed
  • forming
  • kicked the bucket
  • ...

Lemma

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Also called a headword.

A representant of a group of morphologically related forms.

Examples

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  • form (noun)
  • form (verb)

Principles

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Representation

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Each form has a representation:

  • the sequence of phonemes (1)
  • the sequence of graphemes (1)
  • the sequence of phones (2)
  • the sequence of graphs (2)

(1) these have a temporal and regional information associated with them. So for instance the color/colour pair is assumed to be a pair of grapheme sequences with the former being American, the latter British.

(2) These are the possible realizations of the ones marked by (1) for example [p] and [b] can be both variants of the same phoneme in languages not distinguishing voiced and unvoiced consonants (as is conjectured for the language of Linear A inscriptions)

(2) These also carry their environmental information, affecting their selection based on the sandhi rules.

Lemma

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Each form has a link to its lemma.

Category

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Each form has associated a set of categories with it.

Examples

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  • dixit (Latin for: (he/she/it) said)
    • part_of_speech:verb
    • number:singular
    • tense:perfect
    • person:third
    • mood:indicative
    • voice:active
  • dixi (Latin for: (I) said)
    • part_of_speech:verb
    • number:singular
    • tense:perfect
    • person:first
    • mood:indicative
    • voice:active
  • regis (Latin: of king)
    • part_of_speech:noun
    • number:singular
    • case:genitive
    • gender:masculine