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Is a word form defined solely by its grapheme sequence? Can two lexemes have a shared word f...

If one lexeme has a word form "goes", and another lexeme has a word form "goes", are those two word forms considered by linguists to be the same? … In other words, is a word form defined solely by its grapheme sequence? Or is it also defined by its relation to a particular lexeme? …
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Are 'feminism' and 'feminist' part of the same lexeme, or two different lexemes?

If "feminist" and "feminism" are different forms of the same word, one might expect the following to be interpretable and acceptable English: I support feminism, but I wouldn't want to be one. …
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Is a word form defined solely by its grapheme sequence? Can two lexemes have a shared word f...

Similarly, no one would blame you for using "word form" to mean, in a casual way, "the form of a word". A word is an association between a sequence of phonemes (its form) and a meaning. … One way to understand the motivation for the technical definition is to consider what we use this concept of word-forms for. You might be doing some corpus analysis, for example. …
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Is each definition of a word a separate lexeme?

These meanings represent at least three etymologically separate lexemes, but share the one form, fluke. Polysemy: A polyseme is a word or phrase with different, but related senses. (...) … Semantic shift can separate a polysemous word into separate homonyms. …
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What characteristics must word forms share to belong to a lexeme/lemma?

The word "writer" refers to the job and the word "write" refers to the action of said job. Do they share the same lexeme? … English ["be", "being", "been"] are from one root, ["am", "are", "is"] are from another root, ["was", "were"] are from another root. In modern English, they belong to the same lexeme. …
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