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Morphology and Lexicon:The Words of Language An Introduction to Linguistics Lexicon Lexicon is ordinarily synonymous with vocabulary; It is well researched area in the field of linguistics. Corpus linguistics is in fact based on the study of lexicon. Technically speaking, lexicon deals with the analysis and the creation of words, idioms and collocations. Lexeme Lexeme is an abstract unit which occurs in many different forms in actual spoken and written texts. We have different forms for the same lexeme, such as speak, speaks, speaking, spoke and spoken. Lexeme Lexeme and homonyms