English Explanatory Dictionary

glosseme

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The smallest irreducible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; the basic unit of language in the theory of glossematics.

Word forms

glosseme glossemes

Etymology

From gloss- + -eme, coined by Louis Hjelmslev and Hans Jørgen Uldall in the 1930s.

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