episememen.
/ɛpɪˈsiːmiːm/ Linguistics.
In the writings of Leonard Bloomfield: the meaning of a tagmeme (sense 1); hence more generally among later structural linguists: the meaning of any grammatical construction. See tagmeme n.
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1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 166 The smallest meaningful units of grammatical form may be spoken of as tagmemes, and their meanings as episememes.
1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) vi. 174 The episememes are the meanings of the grammatical sequences.
1954 H. Hoijer Language in Culture 7 An episememe is the meaning of a construction (e.g., possession, actor-action).
1964 Language 40 309 It seems that, if made explicit, the concept [of Firth's semantic theory] would roughly correspond to Bloomfield's notion of the episememe.
1967 M. Schlauch Language iv. 70 Structuralists..have provided the term episememe for the meaning of a grammatical construction.
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