Vocabulary Member

AKA: Linguistic Vocabulary Item, Vocabulary Word.
Context:
- It is a Linguistic Component.
- It can be:
  - a Linguistic Symbol (Grapheme, Phoneme).
  - a Word Form, and/or Word Mention.
  - a Morpheme (Bound Morpheme or Morphological Root)
  - a Lexeme / ?? Base Word ??.
    - a Content Word(Lexical Word) or Functional Word(Grammatical Word).
  - a Morph and/or Allomorph.
- ?? It can be a Morphological Rule?? (when/how to use an Affix or to Pluralize)
- It can be represented in a Dictionary Entry.
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Lexicon Item.
See: Lexicon.

References

(Shorter OED, 2007) ⇒ Oxford University Press. (2007). “Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th edition.
- QUOTE: There are five basic types of entry in this dictionary: standard entries, combining entries, letter entries, variant entries, and abbreviation entries.

(Carter, 1998) ⇒ Ronald Carter. (1998). “Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives; 2nd edition." Routledge.
- The term lexeme also embraces items which consist of more than one word-form. Into the category come lexical items such as multi-word verbs (to catch up on), phrasal verbs (to drop in) and idioms (kick the bucket). Here, KICK THE BUCKET is a lexeme and would appear a such in a single dictionary entry even though it is a three-word form. ...
- An important question which also arises her concerns our own metalanguage in this book. Should we talk of words or word-forms or lexemes or lexical items? It is clear that the uses of these words word or vocabulary have a general common-sense validity and are serviceable when there is no real need to be precise. They will continue to be used for general reference. The terms lexeme and the word-forms of a lexeme are valuable theoretical concepts and will be used when theoretical distinctions are necessary. Lexical item(s) (or sometimes vocabulary items or simply items) is a useful and fairly neutral hold-all term which captures and, to some extend, helps to overcome instability in the term word, especially when it become limited by orthography.
- In this chapter there is a distinct shift from examining lexical items at the level of the orthographic ‘word’ or in the patterns which occur in fixed expressions towards a consideration of lexis in larger units of language organization.