Draft:The Structure of Language: Lexemes

Lexeme-Morpheme Hypotheses

In Morphology, three fundamental hypotheses support the theory of Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology which uses the individual characteristics that differentiate lexemes and morphemes.

Background

Morphology is a branch of linguistics that focuses on the study of words. Specifically the internal structure of the word formation and the relationships between the structures. Morphology is essential to language as it improves our vocabulary, understanding of phonics, and reading comprehension.

However, morphology is just a broader spectrum, lexemes are a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics. Lexemes are an abstract idea that represents the integrated definitions and similar grammatical arrangement of groups of words.

Bibliography

• Beard, R. and Volpe, M., 2005. Lexeme-morpheme base morphology. In Handbook of word-formation (pp. 189-205). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
  • This is a published book with an editorial board ranging from many universities across the U.S. and Europe, so this should be a reliable source. The book breaks down the origin and uses of lexemes in linguistically speaking terms and exemplifies the common use of lexemes, this proves helpful in establishing notability.

Outline of Proposed Changes

From the sources I've identified (and will continue to add), I plan to improve this article by...

• Diving deeper into the origins of lexemes in morphology.
• Analyzing how lexemes have relationships with other morphological parts of the English language.
• Providing in-depth examples of lexemes in the English language; breaking down the pieces that form a lexeme and how they are interpreted from linguistic standpoints.
• Connecting the many vocabulary that are in the article currently with the definition of a lexeme.