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keneme Linguistics.|kɛˈniːm|
Also ceneme.
[f. Gr. κενός empty: see -eme.]
(See quot. 1966.) Cf. empty word (empty a. and n. C). Hence keneˈmatics, keˈnetics, the aspect of language concerned with kenemes; keneˈmatic, keˈnemic, keˈnetic adjs.
The forms with initial c- predominate over the etymological forms with k-.
1939L. Hjelmslev in Proc. Third Internat. Congr. Phonetic Sci. 271 A language is a category of two members... One of these planes, the plerematic plane, gives form to the content..; the other, the cenematic plane, forms the expression. Ibid. 272 The constitutents—in plerematics: the pleremes, in cenematics: the cenemes—are usually of two types: central and marginal constituents. 1950S. Potter Our Lang. vii. 86 Beginning with the phoneme, philologists pass on to speak about morphemes, taxemes or tagmemes, sememes (including pleremes and kenemes).., as if -eme were a brand-new suffix meaning ‘linguistic agent’. 1958C. F. Hockett Course in Mod. Ling. lxiv. 575 Phonemes are linguistic cenemes; morphemes are linguistic pleremes. Ibid., It will be better to introduce two new terms for general applicability: cenematic and plerematic. The cenematic structure of language is phonology; the plerematic structure of language is grammar. 1966M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. 35 Ceneme, 1. Linguistically, a phoneme, or anything pertaining to phonology (Hockett). 2. The smallest unit of expression without corresponding content, differing from a phoneme in that it does not necessarily consist of sound, but may include letters and other semantic indicators (Hjelmslev). 1967[see functor 2]. 1967Word XXIII. 469 My observations apparently support the structuralist separation of cenetics and plerematics. Ibid. 471 In addition to their two cenetic and two plerematic systems, bilingual children naturally have to master two sets of form-to-meaning relationships. 1969English Studies L. 432 The tradition from Saussure and Hjelmslev brought about a phonemic—or cenemic—analysis based on pure relations. |