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plerematic

plerematic adjective: pertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.

Adjective

plerematic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.
    • With regard to the segregation of plerematic words into classes, Professor Dobson says: It is a feature of this description that "content or plerematic words" are not segregated into word-classes; rather, analysis is made of the types of distribution and environment in which they occur, such types...1961, Journal of the American Oriental Society - Volume 81, page 306
    • The delimitative devices or 'punctuation marks' here have the same type of structure as the other plerematic signs.1983, Florian Coulmas, Konrad Ehlich, Writing in Focus, →ISBN, page 52

Questions about plerematic

What does plerematic mean?
Plerematic means pertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.
What part of speech is plerematic?
Plerematic is an adjective.

Words near plerematic in the dictionary

  1. pleotrophy
  2. pleotropic
  3. pleotropically
  4. pleotropism
  5. pleotropy
  6. plerematic
  7. plereme
  8. pleremes
  9. pleremic
  10. plerergate
  11. plerergates

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