Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Glossary/Candidates
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This page aims to gather terms useful when dealing with linguistic terminology within the scope of Wiktionary and Wikidata.
Every term should be completed with
- a definition
- a list of relationship with other entries
- at least one matching example
- possibly on counter-example
See also Wikidata:Glossary
Entries
[edit]- allograph
- allophone
- catena
- a unit of syntax and morphology, closely associated with dependency grammars.
- chereme
- a basic unit of signed communication, which is functionally and psychologically equivalent to the phonemes of oral languages.
- clause
- dependency grammar
- [[w
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- Embedded clause
- translations
- French enchâssement de terme
- w:emic units
- expression
- grapheme
- grammar
- grammeme
- a unit of grammar, just as a lexeme is a lexical unit and a morpheme is a morphological unit.
- glyph
- knowledge branch
- idiom
- a phrase or an expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning
- also named
- idiomatic phrase
- inflection
- language
- Lemma
- the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of words
- also named
- headword, head word, catchword
- Lexeme
- a unit of lexical meaning that exists regardless of the number of inflectional endings it may have or the number of words it may contain.
- meaning
- Phrase
- Phrasem
- a multi-word or multi-morphemic utterance at least one of whose components is selectionally constrained or restricted by linguistic convention such that it is not freely chosen
- also named
- set phrase, idiomatic phrase, multi-word expression, or idiom
- person
- lexical item
- a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon.
- Lexicon
- the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.
- Lexis
- the complete set of all possible words in a language.
- meme
- moneme
- morph
- morphem
- the smallest grammatical unit in a language.
- morphology
- multi-word expression
- a lexeme made up of a sequence of two or more lexemes that has properties that are not predictable from the properties of the individual lexemes or their normal mode of combination.
- also named
- phraseme
- part of speech
- a category of lexical items which have similar grammatical properties.
- abbreviated form
- PoS or POS
- also named
- form class, lexical class, lexical category, word class
- phone
- phoneme
- root
- a word that does not have a prefix in front of the word or a suffix at the end of the word.
- also named
- root word
- sentence
- seme
- the smallest unit of meaning recognized in semantics, refers to a single characteristic of a sememe.
- semene
- a semantic language unit of meaning, analogous to a morpheme. The concept is relevant in structural semiotics.
- Set phrase
- a phrase whose parts are fixed in a certain order, even if the phrase could be changed without harming the literal meaning.
- also named
- fixed phrase
- syntactic category
- Syntax
- tagmeme
- the smallest functional element in the grammatical structure of a language.
- term
- Word
- the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning.
- w:Word stem
References
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