plerematicadj.
/ˌplɪərᵻˈmatɪk/, U.S. /ˌplɪrəˈmædɪk/ Linguistics.
Relating to, concerned with, or consisting of pleremes; of the nature of a plereme; of or relating to plerematics.
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notional1839
noematica1866
plerematic1939
1939 L. Hjelmslev in Proc. 3rd Internat. Congr. Phonetic Sci. 271 A language is a category of two members... One of these planes, the plerematic plane, gives form to the content;..the other, the cenematic plane, forms the expression.
1949 C. E. Bazell in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 209 No fusion in the expression of plerematic units is here involved.
1959 W. A. C. H. Dobson Late Archaic Chinese i. 14 Undistributed, a plerematic word might be said to represent a notion undifferentiated by grammatical quality.
1969 Word 1967 23 471 In addition to their two cenetic and two plerematic systems, bilingual children naturally have to master two sets of form-to-meaning relationships.
1983 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 103 371/1 My translations of these poems are more geared to capturing cenematic than plerematic equivalence.
Derivatives
plereˈmatically adv. rare
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plerematically1958
1958 C. F. Hockett Course in Mod. Linguistics lxiv. 576 Productivity implies that some messages in the system..are plerematically complex: that they consist of an arrangement of two or more pleremes, instead of each consisting of a single indivisible plereme.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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