How many ways to define terms? List all of them.

Wecandefinealanguagephenomenoninstudyinstricttermsindifferentways.1)Takingaform-basedperspective—clause:Aclauseisasequenceofwordsthatincorporatesasubjectandapredicate.Itmaybeawholesentence(e.g.Hewilldoittoday)orpartsofasentence(e.g.thathewilldoittoday).2)Consideringitsfunctionalorsemanticproperties—diminutive:atermusedinmorphologytorefertoanaffixwiththegeneralmeaningof“little”,e.g.-letinEnglish.3)Combiningtheformalandfunctionalaspectsofthelanguagephenomenon—lexeme:Alexemeisanitemofvocabularywhichmayconsistofoneormorethanoneword,e.g.concede,givein.Thetermisoftenusedtodenotethebasicuninflectedformofanitem;thelexemegivecan,forexample,berealizedbysuchwordsas“gives”and“gave”.[StuartPoole]4)Givingexamples.5)Drawingdistinctionbetweentheterminquestionandsomeotherterm(s)thatmaycauseconfusion.6)Comparingdifferentdefinitionsforthesameterm(s)bydifferentscholars.