Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<lem>

<lem> (lemma) contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.
Attributes Global attributes and those inherited from readings
Example 






Note



The term lemma is used in text criticism to
describe the reading in the text itself (as opposed to those in the
apparatus); this usage is distinct from that of mathematics (where a
lemma is a major step in a proof) and natural-language processing
(where a lemma is the dictionary form associated with an inflected
form in the running text).






Module
Declared in file teitc2; Additional tag set for Textual Criticism: enabled by TEI.textcrit





Class
readings





Data Description
May
contain character data and phrase-level elements.




May contain
#PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption castList cb certainty cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib figure foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp label lacunaEnd lacunaStart lang lb link linkGrp list listBibl m measure mentioned milestone move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled sound space span spanGrp stage supplied table tech term text time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear view w witDetail witEnd witStart xptr xref 




May occur within
app 




Declaration

<!ELEMENT lem %om.RO;  ( #PCDATA | %m.phrase; | %m.inter; |
                         %m.Incl; | %m.fragmentary; )* > 
<!ATTLIST lem  
      %a.global;
      %a.readings;>







See further
19.1 The Apparatus Entry, Readings, and Witnesses








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