tagmemen.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. x. 166 In the case of lexical forms, we have defined the smallest meaningful units as morphemes, and their meanings as sememes; in the same way, the smallest meaningful units of grammatical form may be spoken of as tagmemes, and their meanings as episememes.

1950 S. Potter Our Lang. 86 Beginning with the phoneme, philologists pass on to speak about morphemes, taxemes or tagmemes.

1943 K. L. Pike in Language XIX. 69 Somewhat diffidently I suggest the following classifications and relabelings as perhaps being a bit easier to handle than Bloomfield's... Tagmeme, a composite view of the basic composite taxemes of a linguistic form, at any one specific layer of structure. E.g. the total arrangement features of the form duchess considered as a single entity.

1957 K. L. Pike in General Linguistics III. 29 In future work, therefore, we are adopting the term tagmeme. It should be noted, however, that our definition of this term is sharply different from Bloomfield.

1968 Language 44 190 Another basic concept in tagmemic analysis is the consistent distinction observed between obligatory and optional tagmemes.

1969 S. Potter Changing Eng. viii. 163 Every sentence is a frame into which syntactic units, or tagmemes, are fitted. When a word is forced into an unusual tagmemic slot, it is said to undergo grammatical conversion or functional shift.

1973 Amer. Speech 1970 45 135 The highest level tagmeme operates at the level of the T-unit.

1981 Word 1980 31 232 The infrastructure of English contains seven slots or tagmemes and that of German six.