grammeme

English

Alternative forms

• grameme (dated)

Etymology

From grammar +‎ -eme, on the pattern of morpheme and phoneme.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɻæmiːm/

Noun

grammeme (plural grammemes)

1. (linguistics) A unit of grammar.
   • 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:

     Much like grammemes, quasi-grammemes oppose lexes of the same lexeme; unlike grammemes, however, they don't enter in categories.

Synonyms

• tagmeme (superseded the term grammeme in Kenneth Pike's school)