It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word. For example, in English, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, which can be represented as RUN.
What is a lexeme and a word form give 1 example?
Lexemes are abstract representations, which presumably are listed in the brain in a component called the lexicon. Each inflected form of a lexeme is called a word-form. E.g. 'sing, sang, sung, singing, sings' are each a word-form and each one belongs to the lexeme SING.
Is every word a lexeme?
A lexeme is often--but not always--an individual word (a simple lexeme or dictionary word, as it's sometimes called). A single dictionary word (for example, talk) may have a number of inflectional forms or grammatical variants (in this example, talks, talked, talking).
Is dog a lexeme?
Every lexeme has its connection to the grammatical tactics. And it connects downwards to expression in some cases as a simple connection; for example, the lexeme "dog" coincides with the morpheme "dog".