Taxem

The taxeme playing on grammatical role level that the phoneme in the lexicon holds. Taxemes are the smallest grammatical form elements that (analogous to the phoneme) themselves are not meaningful. The term goes back to the American linguist Leonard Bloomfield (1933). The phrase "Run!" has two taxemes on (a) the segment run and b) the specific information, which is graphically symbolized by the exclamation mark.

See also

• Taxonomy (linguistics)
• Tagmemik

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helmut Glück: Metzler Lexicon Language . Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-00496-3 ( google.de [accessed on October 3, 2018]).