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  • Lexeme
    A lexeme or lexical item is a word – or occasionally a phrase – in its most basic form, like the…
  • Latinate
    This term refers to those many rather formal and often multisyllabic words in English that derive…
  • Lexical (dynamic) and stative verbs
    Lexical or dynamic verbs tell of an action (to hit, to call, to sing); stative verbs tell of a state…
  • Lexis and Semantics
    Lexis concerns word choice; semantics concerns meaning. Clearly the two concepts are intimately…