A unit of the vocabulary of a language such as a word, phrase or term as listed in a dictionary. It usually has a pronounceable or graphic form, fulfils a grammatical role in a sentence, and carries semantic meaning. [Hartmann and Stork 1972: 128]
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data Structure Relation
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Thing | This subsumes all structuring relations used for LinguisticDataStructures. As a naming convention to distinguish relations in data structure from other relations, all names of dataStructuringRelations begin with 'has-'. |
has Lexical Unit
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Thing | This relates a LexicalItem to a LexicalUnit, those elements commonly represented in a dictionary. |
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The concept "LexicalItem" refers to "dictionary", which is not defined in GOLD, and it does not mention Lexicon at all, though a Lexicon is defined as a set of LexicalItems.
Suggestion: replace "dictionary" in the definition by "Lexicon"