syntaxemen.

1947 Slavonic & East European Rev. 26 276 Anticipating a later work.., Meshchaninov contrasts ‘word’ (slovo) and ‘sentence’ (predlozhenie), i.e. the lexical and the syntactic, and pursues the contrast into their ‘indices’ (pokazateli)—lexemes and syntaxemes.

1950 Archivum Linguisticum 2 ii. 99 Classifiers (as in Zulu) may be both lexemes and syntaxemes... Paramountcy of the predicate may also be seen in Gilyak..where d′ (t′) is not a verb, but a syntaxeme, indicating predication (vi-d′, ‘went’, vi-nə-d′, ‘will go’).

1962 J. Voorhoeve Sranan Syntax i. 7 The syntaxeme is first defined according to the characteristic features of its components in relation to one another, and then in relation to the elements surrounding the syntaxeme.

1991 A. M. Mukhin & N. M. Yulikova in D. Kastovsky Hist. Eng. Syntax 291 A syntaxeme is an elementary syntactic unit (an invariant) represented in the language by a system of variants.

1968 Romance Philol. 21 557 Some ‘syntaxemic’ features may be based on probability of co-occurrence rather than inherent characteristics of the forms concerned.

1977 Word 28 339 His rich list of examples leads him to regard the genitive case as the most important element of syntaxemic word combinations.