syntagmemen.
/sɪnˈtaɡmiːm/, U.S. /sɪnˈtæɡˌmim/ Linguistics.
In tagmemics: a unit consisting of a group of tagmemes; a syntactic construction. See also proto-syntagmeme n. at proto- comb. form 1a(c).
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1947 G. Bonfante in Language 23 351 Morphemes and phonemes and syntagmemes..can penetrate freely from one language into another.
1958 K. L. Pike in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 24 273/2 We have..abandoned the term grammeme and replaced it with Bloomfield's term ‘tagmeme’. It also appears probable that we should replace the term ‘uttereme’ (for ‘utterance-eme’) with ‘syntagmeme’.
1962 E. F. Haden et al. Resonance-theory for Linguistics iii. 41 This complex of slot and filler constitutes a syntagmeme.
1964 R. E. Longacre Gram. Discov. Procedures 17 Syntagmemes of one structural level manifest tagmemes of the next higher level; e.g., words manifest phrase level tagmemes.
1997 R. de Beaugrande New Found. Sci. Text & Disc. 42 The Latin imperative ‘ī!’ (‘go!’)..could be analyzed as a phoneme, a morpheme, a lexeme, and various syntagmemes (verb phrase, clause, complete utterance) all at once.
Derivatives
syntagˈmemic adj. of or relating to a syntagmeme.
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1956 Hispanic Rev. 24 246 This object of investigation, once chosen, should have been analysed..according to formal meaning hidden..in its morphemic and syntagmemic stylistic aspects.
1984 Word 35 139 The..principle holds in comparative tagmemic and comparative syntagmemic reconstruction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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