glosseme

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

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glosseme (plural glossemes)

  1. The smallest irreducible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; the basic unit of language in the theory of glossematics.
    • 2022, B. Elan Dresher, Harry van der Hulst, editors, The Oxford History of Phonology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 341:
      We can now for a moment leave Hjelmslev's own conception of such a system—based upon glossematic formal definitions—and ask: to which degree can this system of glossemes be defended from a general phonological or phonetic point of view?

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