into linguistics by August Schleicher in 1859.

Fundamental concepts

Lexemes and word-forms

The term "word" has no well-defined meaning. Instead, two related terms are used in morphology: lexeme and word-form. Generally, a lexeme is a set of inflected word-forms that is often represented with the citation form in small capitals. For instance, the lexeme eat includes the

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