noun
- the smallest meaningful unit of grammatical form in tagmemic analysis, consisting of a grammatical function filled by a class of mutually substitutable items
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The linguist identified the subject tagmeme in the sentence structure.
- In tagmemic theory, a tagmeme represents both function and the class of items that can fill that function.
- The verb tagmeme in this construction can be filled by various action words.
- Tagmemes help linguists analyze how different word classes function in specific grammatical slots.
- The researcher mapped out the tagmemic structure of the indigenous language.