Encodes words as abstract symbolic units, independent of meaning.

What it is

Symbol.Lexical elements encode words as tokens — discrete symbolic units with identity, not meaning. They cover the formal properties of words: their token boundaries, their position in the vocabulary, their surface form. They are distinct from Identity or Relation elements that encode what words mean; Lexical elements encode the fact that something is a word-symbol at all.

Element 15 of 56 — the Symbol type, as set out in DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19852341.