grammeme en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɡɻæmiːm/ (US)
Etymology
From grammar + -eme, on the pattern of morpheme and phoneme.
Meanings
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A unit of grammar.
Much like grammemes, quasi-grammemes oppose lexes of the same lexeme; unlike grammemes, however, they don't enter in categories.
1991, Igor Mel'čuk, “Toward a Universal Calculus of Inflectional Categories: On Roman Jakobson's Trail”, in Linda R. Waugh, Stephen Rudy, editors, New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation. […] , John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 92:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| grameme | alternative, dated | lexicographic | |
| grammemes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |