kenemen.
/kɛˈniːm/ Linguistics.
(See quot. 1966.) Cf. empty word n. at empty adj. and n. Compounds 2.The forms with initial c- predominate over the etymological forms with k-.
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particle1533
parcel1571
syncategorem1655
agency1778
empty word1854
symbolic1871
form-word1875
structural word1884
particule1889
pheme1906
structure word1925
function word1927
operator1938
logical word1940
keneme1950
rheme1953
functor1958
the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [noun] > other types of
noemea1866
affix1895
glosseme1926
minimum free form1926
plereme1939
keneme1950
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > phoneme, allophone, etc.
phonea1866
phoneme1879
metaphone1930
diaphone1932
variphone1932
morphoneme1933
morphophoneme1934
microphoneme1935
stress phoneme1936
archiphoneme1937
allophone1938
diaphoneme1939
prosodeme1939
keneme1950
proto-phoneme1951
idiophoneme1955
morphon1964
hypophoneme1966
morphophone1967
1950 S. 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’.
1958 C. F. Hockett Course in Mod. Linguistics lxiv. 575 Phonemes are linguistic cenemes; morphemes are linguistic pleremes.
1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. 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 R. A. Waldron Sense & Sense Devel. ii. 45 Even individual words like and, but, or,..(which are variously known as function words, form words, operators, functors, or kenemes)..are defined grammatically rather than, or as well as, lexically.
Derivatives
keneˈmatic adj.
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syncategorematical1646
servile1668
auxiliary1677
syncategorematic1826
kenematic1939
kenemic1969
kenetic1969
1939 L. Hjelmslev in Proc. 3rd 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.
1958 C. F. Hockett Course in Mod. Linguistics lxiv. 575 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.
keneˈmatics n.
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tonology1874
accentology1881
acoustic phonetics1914
tonetics1921
phonology1924
morphonology1933
morphophonology1934
phonemics1934
psychophonetics1934
phonematics1936
physiophonetics1936
speech physiology1936
morphophonemics1938
kenematics1939
phonematology1949
speech recognition1953
phonotactics1956
paralinguistics1958
morphophonics1962
Trageremics1963
phonematics1964
kenetics1969
1939 L. Hjelmslev in Proc. 3rd Internat. Congr. Phonetic Sci. 272 The constitutents—in plerematics: the pleremes, in cenematics: the cenemes—are usually of two types: central and marginal constituents.
keˈnemic adj.
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syncategorematical1646
servile1668
auxiliary1677
syncategorematic1826
kenematic1939
kenemic1969
kenetic1969
1969 Eng. Stud. 50 432 The tradition from Saussure and Hjelmslev brought about a phonemic—or cenemic—analysis based on pure relations.
keˈnetic adj.
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syncategorematical1646
servile1668
auxiliary1677
syncategorematic1826
kenematic1939
kenemic1969
kenetic1969
1969 Word 1967 23 471 In addition to their two cenetic and two plerematic systems, bilingual children naturally have to master two sets of form-to-meaning relationships.
keˈnetics n. the aspect of language concerned with kenemes.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonology and branches
tonology1874
accentology1881
acoustic phonetics1914
tonetics1921
phonology1924
morphonology1933
morphophonology1934
phonemics1934
psychophonetics1934
phonematics1936
physiophonetics1936
speech physiology1936
morphophonemics1938
kenematics1939
phonematology1949
speech recognition1953
phonotactics1956
paralinguistics1958
morphophonics1962
Trageremics1963
phonematics1964
kenetics1969
1969 Word 1967 23 469 My observations apparently support the structuralist separation of cenetics and plerematics.
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