Words similar to lemma
Example sentences for: lemma
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But for practical purposes, there is little point in including a lemma like hwālrād (a kenning, `whale-road,' for sea ) if only an infinitesimal portion of the population reads Beowulf or an article about it in a recondite learned journal.
While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.
Lexicographic technocrats enjoy using terms like terminology, terminography, LSP language for special purposes, LGP language for general purposes, lemma, lexeme , and other words, reflecting the notion, long prevalent in psychology, sociology, and other social sciences, that if you can give a problem a name, you have somehow gone a long way toward solving it.
While it is acknowledged that statistics can make allowance for using samples instead of an entire corpus for analysis, the prodigious quantity of lemmata (that's the plural of lemma ) requires an incredibly large sample.
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