grammeme

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Etymology

From grammar +‎ -eme, on the pattern of morpheme and phoneme.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡɻæmiːm/

Noun

grammeme (plural grammemes)

  1. (linguistics) A unit of grammar.
    • 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:
      Much like grammemes, quasi-grammemes oppose lexes of the same lexeme; unlike grammemes, however, they don't enter in categories.

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