Log in or Sign up
tagmeme love

tagmeme

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun linguistics, tagmemics The smallest functional element in the grammatical structure of a sentence.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tagmeme.

Examples

  • Definitions of spelling pronunciation, speech = parole, phoneme, and tagmemics, were good, though tagmeme, a difficult word to define briefly, did not seem quite to meet either Bloomfield's or Pike's use of the term.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4 1980

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

forms (1)

Forms

  1. syntagmeme

relateds (1)

relateds

  1. tagmemics

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • mollusque commented on the word tagmeme

    The smallest meaningful unit of grammatical analysis (listed in OED2).

    November 5, 2007

  • MRBOGGLE commented on the word tagmeme

    -noun

    the smallest unit of meaningful grammatical relation

    ~tagmemic

    June 9, 2009