Talk:Citation form

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The concept of citation form described in the article may be found in contexts like speech analysis and the teaching of English, but it's not its usual sense in linguistics and lexicography (which is synonymous with headword or lemma). This other sense can be found for example in this article ("The citation form for nouns (the one normally shown in Latin dictionaries)") and this article ("The Citation form shown is the form most commonly shown in dictionaries"), defined in this online dictionary ("The form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary") and described in this pdf ("A lexical item is an abstract unit, and it must always appear in one or another of its various forms. Therefore, we are obliged to choose one of those forms to represent the lexical item when we want to talk about it. The form we choose is called the “citation form” of the lexical item. The citation form (or dictionary form) of a lexical item is the particular grammatical form of it which we use in naming it, talking about it, and entering it in a dictionary"). Uaxuctum 01:43, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The term I've usually heard for a word pronounced in isolation is isolation form rather than citation form. I only know citation form in the lexicographical sense (the citation form of a Latin verb is the first person singular present active indicative; the citation form of a German verb is the infinitive; the citation form of an Irish verb is the second person singular imperative). --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 20:26, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Deletion proposal

@Music Sorter I am confused by the proposal for deletion, and have removed the tag. I know very little about linguistics, and was looking up "citation form". Without the disambiguation page I would not have known that the page I wanted was Lemma (morphology) and not Weak form and strong form, both of which list "citation form" as a name for the concept. Perhaps the DAB would be better served as a hatnote, or if the two articles are really about similar enough things then there should be a merge or other restructuring of the articles instead. I unfortunately do not know enough about the subject to go ahead on this. See also the previous discussion. Belegdal (talk) 21:27, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

• Belegdal, thanks for being bold enough to remove the deletion tag. Although we still have an issue with the page. Currently it is not a properly formatted DAB per WP:DAB. Also the term citation form is defined in Wiktionary under Wiktionary:citation form so I was originally debating the utility of this entry as non-encyclopedic. In the mean time I will reclassify this page as a stub article so we can keep all the different links (not permitted on DAB articles). Maybe someone wants to make the relevant changes to the Wiktionary page to include this information and then it can be removed at that time. § Music Sorter § (talk) 04:34, 17 April 2012 (UTC)