Glosseme

A glosseme is the smallest linguistic unit. There are two very different ways of using the term:

• Leonard Bloomfield refers to the smallest meaningful unit that is commonly called morpheme today as a glosseme . It serves as a generic term for the (grammatical) tag memes and (lexical) morphemes. The meaning carried by the glossem itself is called noem .
• In the glossematics by Louis Hjelmslev are Glosseme small units of the language system . They are divided into phonological features on the expression level ( keneme ) and semantic features on the content level ( plereme ), i.e. H. a plerem is roughly equivalent to a morpheme in modern terminology.

literature

• Leonard Bloomfield: Language . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York / Chicago / San Francisco / Toronto 1933.
• Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.) With the collaboration of Hartmut Lauffer: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 4th, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-45204-7
• Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language . 4th edition. JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010, ISBN 3-476-02335-4 .
• Winfried Ulrich: Basic Linguistic Concepts . 5th, completely revised edition. Borntraeger, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-443-03111-0 , keyword: Glossematik .

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Smallest meaningful unit of linguistic signaling: glosseme ; the meaning of a glosseme is a noeme "(Bloomfield 1933: 264)

Web links

Wiktionary: Glossem  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations