tagmemics

American

[tag-mee-miks] / tægˈmi mɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.

tagmemics British

/ tæɡˈmiːmɪks /

plural noun

(functioning as singular) linguistics a type of grammatical analysis based on the concept of function in sentence slots and the determination of classes of words that can fill each slot

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Other Word Forms

tagmemicist

noun

Etymology

Origin of tagmemics

First recorded in 1945–50; tagmeme + -ics

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