glossematics

American  

[glos-uh-mat-iks, glaw-suh-] / ˌglɒs əˈmæt ɪks, ˌglɔ sə- /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.

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Other Word Forms

• glossematic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of glossematics

1935–40; glosseme + -atics, on the model of Greek formations such as phṓnēma speech (stem phōnēmat- ), adj. derivative phōnēmatikós ( cf. phoneme), and the names of disciplines formed from such adjectives, as mathematics