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modes of thought current in the linguistic community.
The segmentation of the sound continuum of an utterance into convenient segments is a comparatively easy matter but not so the cutting of the units of the thought continuum. Here the basic facts of this semantic material is already segmental into various units according to the long tradition of a given language and are generally accepted when a language is learned. Any precision for this depends upon mutual understanding and adjustments, where a chosen element gets associated with all other relevant elements collectively called its environment. This environment of a linguistic element called a lexeme is of two types, linguistic and extra-linguistic, the second of which cannot be used to fix the meanings of lexemes. Hence the meanings given to words in a lexicon will be such as can be determined by the linguistic environment stated above and no extra-linguistics information can be used for this purpose. This clear-cut decision lays down the limits which the assigned meaning of a word must observe and must be restricted to it by the assigned meaning of a word must lexicographer.
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Key-Note Address for a Seminar on Lexicography
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