Grammeme

//ɡɻæmiːm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A unit of grammar.

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

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tagmeme

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

Etymology

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

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