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glossemes

glossemes is the plural of glosseme.

Meaning of glosseme

Noun

glosseme (plural glossemes)

  1. The smallest irreducible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; the basic unit of language in the theory of glossematics.
    • We can now for a moment leave Hjelmslev's own conception of such a system—based upon glossematic formal definitions—and ask: to which degree can this system of glossemes be defended from a general phonological or phonetic point of view?2022, B. Elan Dresher, Harry van der Hulst, editors, The Oxford History of Phonology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 341

Questions about glossemes

What is glossemes the plural of?
Glossemes is the plural of glosseme.

Words near glossemes in the dictionary

  1. glossematic
  2. glossematician
  3. glossematicians
  4. glossematics
  5. glosseme
  6. glossemes
  7. glossen
  8. glossened
  9. glossening
  10. glossens
  11. glosser

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