Non-lemma

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma. rare

    "According to Schmauder (1991) they had a narrow range of frequency of occurrence (our nonlemma count yields an average of 68; Francis & Kucera, 1982)."

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lemma

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"According to Schmauder (1991) they had a narrow range of frequency of occurrence (our nonlemma count yields an average of 68; Francis & Kucera, 1982)."

Etymology

From non- + lemma.

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