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non-lemma

non-lemma noun: any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.

Noun

non-lemma (plural non-lemmas or non-lemmata)

  1. (rare) Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.
    • According to Schmauder (1991) they had a narrow range of frequency of occurrence (our nonlemma count yields an average of 68; Francis & Kucera, 1982).1991, Lewis P. Shapiro et al., “Verb effects during sentence processing”, in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, volume XVII, № 5, pages 986-987
    • Prep. … Prenominal adjectives … Non lemmas … Basque multiword … English multiwords … English unknown … Others
      11% … 21% … 7% … 5% … 17% … 16% … 21%2000, Arantxa Diaz de Ilarraza et al., Building a Lexicon for an English–Basque Machine Translation System from heterogeneous wide coverage dictionaries, § 5.1, page 4, Table 2

Examples of non-lemma in a sentence

  • If the database is to be printed out in the form of a dictionary, non-lemmas can be generated from the items contained in these fields.2002, Christian Lehmann, “Structure of a comprehensive presentation of a language”, in Tasaku Tsunoda, editor, Basic Materials in Minority...
  • In step 3, non-words or non-lemmas, that are often generated by the guesser modules, are filtered out from the result.2012, Maciej Piasecki et al., “Recognition of Polish Derivational Relations Based on Supervised Learning Scheme”, in LREC 2012, § 2.2, page...

Forms of non-lemma

pluralnon-lemmas
pluralnon-lemmata
alternative formnonlemma

Origin of non-lemma

From non- + lemma.

Questions about non-lemma

What does non-lemma mean?
Non-lemma means any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.
How do you use non-lemma in a sentence?
If the database is to be printed out in the form of a dictionary, non-lemmas can be generated from the items contained in these fields.
What part of speech is non-lemma?
Non-lemma is a noun.
What is the plural of non-lemma?
The plural of non-lemma is non-lemmas.

Words near non-lemma in the dictionary

  1. non-leaguer
  2. non-leaguers
  3. non-leap year
  4. non-leap years
  5. non-legalism
  6. non-lemma
  7. non-lemmas
  8. non-lemmata
  9. non-lethal
  10. non-lethals
  11. non-lexical

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