WORD WORD-FORM AND LEXEM

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Mila Nur Afifah
Auliyah Wulandari
Sinta Nur Azizah
Chindy Ochtaviana Putri
Fatwa Eliskasari
Citra Dea Shafira
DEFINITION WORD
• Word is a sound-meaning unit, each word stored
in our mental lexicon must be listed with its
unique phonological representation, which
determines its pronunciation, and with its
meaning. You may not consciously know that a
form like love is listed as both a verb and a noun,
but a speaker has such knowledge, as shown by
the phrases I love you and You are the love of
my life.
Classes of Word

Lexical content words

In English nouns, verb, adjectives, and adverbs
make up the largest part of the vocabulary. They
are the content words of a language, which are
sometimes called the open class of lexical items.
for example,bottle has an independent
meaning,so does the series
boy,break,bottle,stone.
Function Word
Other syntatic categories include grammatical
or function words. Conjunctions such as and
and or, prepositions such as in or of, the artocles
the and a/an, part of the class of determiners,
and pronouns have been referred to as closed
class words, it is not easy to think of new
conjunctions or prepositions or pronouns that
have recently entered the language.
•WORD-FORM

WORD-FORM

• The different morphosyntactic words respresented

by different word forms(take,took,taken)
I put the garbage out every week. (PUT+ present)
 I put the garbage out yesterday. (PUT+ past)
I put the garbage out already. (PUT+ past
participle)
• The different morphosyntactic words are
represented by the same word form(put)
LEXEME

• The lexeme is the word which the phonological

unit is a realization of the form. The past
participle of the lexeme which is called
grammatical word. For example the word: “go”
and “went” are different word forms which
realize a single lexeme, “go”.
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