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tagmeme

tagmeme |ˈtagmiːm | ▶noun Linguistics (in tagmemics ) a slot in a syntactic frame which may be filled by any member of a set of appropriate linguistic items. ORIGIN 1930s: from Greek tagma ‘arrangement ’ + -eme .

 

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tagmeme

tagmeme |ˈtagmiːm | ▶noun Linguistics (in tagmemics ) a slot in a syntactic frame which may be filled by any member of a set of appropriate linguistic items. ORIGIN 1930s: from Greek tagma ‘arrangement ’ + -eme .