Pernilla Hallonsten Halling

The lexeme level

We will now turn to the lexeme level, which is particularly important for the purposes of this dissertation. It is here that we find overlapping correspondences to the simple adverbs described in section 5.2 For clarification, the English examples from section 4.2 may again be considered in order to distinguish the root and lexeme level.

(6.13) English [attr pred] [adv] lexeme

1. 
   The sad person over there is Sheila. attr
   
2. 
   Sheila is sad. pred
   
3. 
   Sheila smiled sadly. adv
   

In (6.13), sad and sadly are analyzed as different lexemes. Thus, in this case English has a lexeme level overlap of attr and pred, whereas adv is encoded differently. This can be compared to the root level analysis in the previous section, which yielded a total overlap for the same examples. In the sections that follow, the overlaps of the attr, pred, and adv functions found at the lexeme level in the sample languages are described. This means that individual lexemes are identified for each function and compared to each other. The lexemes found within an overlap belong to different categories or class types in the individual languages. Such classes are discussed throughout the sections and are indicated in the summarizing tables at the end of each section. The overlap of the attr and pred functions is described in section 6.4.1. This is followed by the overlap of the pred and adv functions in section 6.4.2. The only language with a lexeme level overlap of attr and adv is described in section 6.4.3. The total overlap of all three function is described in section 6.4.4.

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