A lexicon L is a finite set of inflection tables, As the n is fixed, this is a lexicon specialized to one part of speech.
a word is an element of the lexicon, that is, an inflection table of size n. an application of a smart paradigm P m to a word w ∈ L is an inflection table resulting from applying P m to the appropriate subset σ m (w) of the inflection table w, we assume that all arguments are existing word forms (rather than e.g.