grammeme
nounUS /ɡɻæmiːm/
Etymology From grammar + -eme, on the pattern of morpheme and phoneme.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A unit of grammar.
- Much like grammemes, quasi-grammemes oppose lexes of the same lexeme; unlike grammemes, however, they don't enter in categories.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: