Arabic-L:LING:Lemma Query

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 02 Aug 2006
From:capraia at yahoo.com
Subject:Lemma Query

ahlan!

i´d like to know what is the way to express the
'lemma' (following Sinclair´s terminology) in arabic.

in english lingusitics (and other latin script
languages')it is a convention to express the lemma in
capital letters. so, the lemma SING would account for
sing, sings, sang, song, etc...but since there´s no
distinction for capital letters in arabic i wonder how
it is specified.

would it be enough to use the radicals? i.e.: ktb
would account for kataba, yaktub, maktab, makatib
etc...because, in that case, the arabic lemma would
cover much more info than, for instance, the english
one.

shukran

-p

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