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glossematics

[ glos-uh-mat-iks, glaw-suh- ]

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Dzȴ·i adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of glossematics1

1935–40; glosseme + -atics, on the model of Greek formations such as ṓnŧ speech (stem ōŧ- ), adj. derivative ōŧپó ( phoneme ), and the names of disciplines formed from such adjectives, as mathematics

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