tagmemicadj.
/taɡˈmiːmɪk/ Linguistics.
Of or pertaining to tagmemes or tagmemics.
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1958 K. L. Pike in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics XXIV. 275 In order to demonstrate another crucial difference between our tagmeme and that of Bloomfield it is necessary to indicate the manner in which slot and distribution class are relevant to our tagmemic view.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics p. xx P. Postal..sets out a vigorous criticism of both immediate constituent and tagmemic analysis.
1968 Language 44 190 Tagmemic theory provides a tight hierarchical scheme for grammatical description.
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.
1978 Eng. Jrnl. Dec. 66 A clause analysis technique reflecting a sketch of the core grammatical system of English based on a tagmemic model.
1981 Word 1980 31 231 He..adopts the generative tagmemic approach as the basis of his work.
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