glosseme
English edit
Etymology edit
gloss- + -eme, coined by Louis Hjelmslev and Hans Jørgen Uldall in the 1930s.
Noun edit
glosseme (plural glossemes)
- 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?