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<lem>

lemma

contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.

Module textcritTCAPLL

Attributes

Classes and content

May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

textcrit

Note

The term lemma is used in text criticism to describe the reading given in the main text, which may be used as a heading in the apparatus itself. This usage connects it to mathematics (where a lemma is a proven proposition used as a step in a proof, a "given") and natural-language processing (where a lemma is the dictionary headword associated with an inflected form in the running text).

Example

<app>
  <lem wit="#El #Hg">Experience</lem>
  <rdg wit="#La" type="substantive">Experiment</rdg>
  <rdg wit="#Ra2" type="substantive">Eryment</rdg>
</app>

Content model

<content>    
    <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
      <textNode/>
      <classRef key="model.divLike"/>
      <classRef key="model.divPart"/>
      <elementRef key="titlePage"/>
      
      
      <elementRef key="argument"/>
      <elementRef key="byline"/>
      <elementRef key="docAuthor"/>
      <elementRef key="docDate"/>
      <elementRef key="docEdition"/>
      <elementRef key="docImprint"/>
      <elementRef key="docTitle"/>
      <elementRef key="epigraph"/>
      <elementRef key="imprimatur"/>
      <elementRef key="speaker"/>
      <elementRef key="titlePart"/>
      
      <elementRef key="epilogue"/>
      <elementRef key="performance"/>
      <elementRef key="prologue"/>
      <elementRef key="set"/>
      
      <classRef key="model.gLike"/>
      <classRef key="model.phrase"/>
      <classRef key="model.inter"/>
      <classRef key="model.global"/>
      <classRef key="model.rdgPart"/>
    </alternate>
  </content>