monorhemen.
/ˈmɒnəriːm/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌrim/ Linguistics.
A single element or word with a phrasal meaning.
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sentence-word1848
holophrasm1860
phrase-word1871
holophrase1899
monorheme1937
1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics iv. 379 Bally proceeds to view the sentence in its genetic and psychological aspects, its development from the ‘monorheme’ to the ‘dirheme’ by a process of integration or ‘condensation’ of two originally independent units.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. viii. 230 A verb is the sole part of speech which can form a complete sentence, i.e., which can contain both a subject and a predicate in a single monorrheme.
1950 Archivum Linguisticum 2 186 The nature of the ‘monorhemes’ varies between a wish or request, a questioning attitude,..and..a mere report of something perceived.
1970 Language 46 923 In these apparent monorhemes a hic-et-nunc adverb has been deleted.
Derivatives
monoˈrrhemic adj.
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long-tailedc1550
communicable1583
unanalogical1755
learned1869
parasynetic1885
monorrhemic1939
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. viii. 229 Another type of monorrhemic verbal sentence is seen in verbs expressing meteorological conditions, such as Latin pluit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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