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LEXEME
Lexemes are the items listed in lexicon
In a dictionary, the variants of lexeme is known as Lemma
e.g. walks, walked, walking (from to walk)
The usual approach in semantics is to try to associate
phonological and grammatical words with semantics words or
lexeme
Several lexemes can be represented by one phonological and
grammatical word
e.g. He scored with his left foot
They made camp at the foot of the mountain
I ate a foot long hot-dog
Thus, the wod foot has three senses
(1) part of leg below the ankle
(2) base or bottom of something
(3) unit of length, one third of a yard
one lexical entry may contain several lexeme or senses