Look up: Glossematics

1. glossematics
   system of linguistic analysis based on the distribution and interrelationship of glossemes, the smallest meaningful units of a language—e.g., a ...
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2. glossematics
   glossematics 1. A school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes (the smallest meaningful units of a language). 2. A neologism combining glossary with mathematics to indicate a formalized system...
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3. Glossematics
   `Glossematics` is a structuralist linguistic theory of the twentieth century proposed by Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev. It defines the glosseme as the most basic unit or component of language. The glosseme is defined as the smallest irreductible unit of both the content and expression plane...
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