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Meaning of "glosseme" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GLOSSEME

From Greek glōssēma.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GLOSSEME

glosseme  [ˈɡlɒsiːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLOSSEME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Glosseme is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GLOSSEME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Glossematics

Glossematics is a structuralist linguistic theory of the twentieth century proposed by Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev. It defines the glosseme as the most basic unit or component of language. The glosseme is defined as the smallest irreductible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; in the expression plane, the glosseme is said to be identical or nearly identical to the phoneme, whereas it is stressed that traditional analyses have not adequately revealed the basic units of the content plane of languages. The term was coined by Louis Hjelmslev and Hans Jørgen Uldall; glosseme was a neologism deriving from the Greek word glossa. The ultimate goal of the linguist who studies glossemes is the same as that of a physicist who studies atoms, to wit a more perfect understanding of the whole through a thorough study of the structure of the constituent parts. To the greatest extent possible, glossematics seeks to take a tabula rasa approach, constructing an internally consistent framework of axioms and principles with minimal reliance on external terms.

Definition of glosseme in the English dictionary

The definition of glosseme in the dictionary is the smallest meaningful unit of a language, such as stress, form, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GLOSSEME


aldoxime
ælˈdɒksiːm
berseem
bɜːˈsiːm
beseem
bɪˈsiːm
chalutzim
xɑˈluːˈtsiːm
decime
ˈdɛsiːm
enseam
ɪnˈsiːm
exeme
ɛkˈsiːm
inseam
ˈɪnsiːm
ketoxime
kiːˈtɒksiːm
kibbutzim
ˌkɪbʊtˈsiːm
lexeme
ˈlɛksiːm
misbeseem
ˌmɪsbɪˈsiːm
misseem
ˌmɪsˈsiːm
oxime
ˈɒksiːm
raceme
rəˈsiːm
seam
siːm
seame
siːm
seem
siːm
seme
siːm
unbeseem
ˌʌnbɪˈsiːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GLOSSEME

glossal
glossarial
glossarially
glossaries
glossarist
glossary
glossator
glossectomies
glossectomy
glossematics
glosser
glossier
glossies
glossiest
glossily
glossina
glossiness
glossingly
glossist
glossitic

WORDS THAT END LIKE GLOSSEME

academe
bonus scheme
breme
color scheme
colour scheme
deme
extreme
heme
housing scheme
incentive scheme
meme
morpheme
pension scheme
pilot scheme
polyseme
scheme
supreme
teleseme
theme
triseme

Synonyms and antonyms of glosseme in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «glosseme» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GLOSSEME

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The translations of glosseme from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «glosseme» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

义位
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

glosseme
570 millions of speakers

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glosseme
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glosseme
380 millions of speakers
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glosseme
280 millions of speakers

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glosseme
278 millions of speakers

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glosseme
270 millions of speakers

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glosseme
260 millions of speakers

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glosseme
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Glosseme
190 millions of speakers

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glosseme
180 millions of speakers

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glosseme
130 millions of speakers

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glosseme
85 millions of speakers

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Glosseme
85 millions of speakers
vi

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glosseme
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

glosseme
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्लोसमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dilbirim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

glosseme
65 millions of speakers

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glosseme
50 millions of speakers

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glosseme
40 millions of speakers

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glosseme
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

glosseme
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

glosseme
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

glosseme
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

glosseme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of glosseme

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GLOSSEME»

The term «glosseme» is barely ever used and occupies the 205.434 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GLOSSEME» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about glosseme

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLOSSEME»

Discover the use of glosseme in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to glosseme and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Copenhague
3 30 AMBICENTRAL GLOSSEME or GLOSSEME-VARIETY. Df 328. A MARGINAL GLOSSEME or GLOSSEME- Df 328 VARIETY (+0m ) is a Glosseme or glosseme-Variety that Enters into a Marginal Taxeme or, respectively, into a marginal ...
Lingvistkredsen (Copenhagen, Denmark), 1972
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Résumé of a Theory of Language
330 AMBICENTRAL GLOSSEME or GLOSSEME-VARIETY. Df 328. A MARGINAL GLOSSEME or GLOSSEMEVARIETY (*gm ) is a Glosseme or glosseme-Variety that Enters into a Marginal Taxeme or, respectively, into a marginal ...
Louis Hjelmslev, 1975
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Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
(eds), Trends in European and American linguistics, 1930-1960. Utrecht. 128-64. => linguistics (history) glosseme 1 In L. Bloomfield's terminology, the smallest meaning-bearing unit. Glosseme functions as the cover term for the ( grammatically ...
Hadumod Bussmann, Kerstin Kazzazi, Gregory Trauth, 2006
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Unsolved Problems in Stellar Evolution: Proceedings of the ...
The corresponding term in glossematics is the glosseme concept defined in Section I.2.1, "Parts and Wholes". In Hjelmslev's formulation, glossemes are simply the smallest elements the theory leads us to establish, the irreducible invariantsl.
Mario Livio, 2000
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Linguistic Theory: The Discourse of Fundamental Works
Hjelmslev mentions here 'parts of phonemes', but not a single example of an actual 'glosseme' appears in PT or RT, though the latter defines many types of ' glossemes', such as 'median' and 'peripheral', 'centrifugal' and 'centripetal', ' primary' ...
Robert de 8eaugrande, 2014
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A Theory of Computer Semiotics: Semiotic Approaches to ...
The corresponding term in glossematics is the glosseme concept defined in Section I.2.1, "Parts and Wholes". In Hjelmslev's formulation, glossemes are simply the smallest elements the theory leads us to establish, the irreducible invariants2.
Peter Bøgh Andersen, 1997
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A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology
63. Def. Analogic change which creates or enlarges a glosseme is contamination . For example, creation (of a morpheme), pre-Germanic *hwedworez 'four', *fimfe ' five ' > *f-edworez, *f-imfe. Increase in size (of a morpheme), late Latin gra-ve, ...
Leonard Bloomfield, Charles F. Hockett, 1987
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Leonard Bloomfield, Essays on His Life and Work
where a "glosseme" is "whatever has meaning" (a "form," a "construction," or a " zero element"). We are told that when the ƒ of five replaces the *wh of "4" a morpheme ƒ- is "created," and that the replacement of Latin gra-ve "heavy", le-ve "light" ...
Robert Anderson Hall, E. F. K. Koerner, 1987
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Language
... lexical : phoneme; (b) grammatical : taxeme; (2) Smallest meaningful unit of linguistic signaling: glosseme; the meaning of a glosseme is a noeme; (a) lexical: morpheme; the meaning of a morpheme is a sememe; (b) grammatical: tagmeme ; ...
Leonard Bloomfield, 1994
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
... Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in the 1930s and 1940s, concerned especially with developing an abstract theory of the *distribution of minimal forms (called * glossemes), and their mutual relationships. glosseme In *Glossematics, any feature ...
Bas Aarts, Sylvia Chalker, Edmund Weiner, 2014

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