listeme
noun/ˈlɪstiːm/
Etymology From list + -eme.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences An item that is memorized as part of a list, as opposed to being generated by a rule.
- Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese".
- A memorized chunk is sometimes called a listeme, that is, an item that has to be memorized as part of a list; one can argue that this book ought to have been called Listemes and Rules.2000, Steven Pinker, Words and Rules, →ISBN, page 24:
- Related terms
- chereme, chroneme, expression, grapheme, idiom, irregular, lexeme, lexical item, lexicalization, phoneme, set phrase, term, tokenization, toneme, word