listeme en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- lĭst'ēm
- /ˈlɪstiːm/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From list + -eme.
Meanings
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An item that is memorized as part of a list, as opposed to being generated by a rule.
Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese".
A memorized chunk is sometimes called a listeme, that is, an item that has to be memorized as part of a list; one can argue that this book ought to have been called Listemes and Rules.
2000, Steven Pinker, Words and Rules, →ISBN, page 24:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| listemes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
phoneme · chroneme · lexical item · chereme · term · expression · tokenization · irregular · lexeme · grapheme · lexicalization · toneme · set phrase · idiom · word