Re: linguistic terminology question

Hello Tom,

I don't think it is overstepping the boundaries of the group.

I would say that you are talking about word families
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_family>.

Regards,
John

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 6:00 PM, tknorr <tknorr@neurocollective.com> wrote:

> Apologies for potentially mis-using this list.
>
> What is the correct term for a pattern of related lexemes (of different
> syntactic roles, but same sematic root) e.g NN'building', VB'to build',
> JJ'built', JJ'building', .....Is it a 'sememe'? Entry in a thesaurus?
>
> I think the pattern can be exploited in computational linguistic to
> complete a dictionary by generating all words of the pattern,
> indiscriminately of their actual existence in a language and then using a
> Darwinist rule to eliminate any non-existing words from it.
>
> Again, apologies if this oversteps the group use, you can respond to my
> e-mail directly if you have an answer or a lead.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tom
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