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semanteme Linguistics.|siːˈmæntiːm|
[a. F. sémantème, f. Gr. σηµαντικός significant, after morphème morpheme, phonème phoneme.]
A unit of meaning; a linguistic element which expresses a concept; = sememe. Hence semanˈtemic a.
1925, etc. [see morpheme]. 1933S.P.E. Tract xxxviii. 596 We already have plenty of synonyms for rumour, news, report, &c., to which semantemes the word khubber does not add any new shade of meaning. 1938I. Goldberg Wonder of Words xvi. 324 If, in addition to its phonemic and semantemic elements, a word has another element, that element is morphemic. 1949C. E. Bazell in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 213 The inflections of tense..are naturally always determinants of the verbal semanteme. 1960G. Thomson Greek Lang. 1 The words composing a sentence may be divided into two kinds: those which express concepts (‘full words’ or semantemes) and those which express relationships between concepts (‘empty words’ or morphemes). 1977A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's Ecrits iii. 63 The effects would no longer be produced, thus revealing that they do not depend even conditionally on the semanteme. |