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Chapter 3 Lexicon 1. What is word? A unit of expression that has universal intuitive recognition by native speakers, whether it is expressed in spoken or written form. A vague definition. Three senses are involved in defining “word”, none of which is satisfactory to cope with all the situations. A set of forms: walk, walks, walking, walked How many words are there? I usually have dinner at 6 but yesterday I had it at seven. How many times did the word “have” occur? A lexical item or a lexeme A lexical item is an entry in a dictionary. A lexeme WRITE includes all of its grammatical forms: writ