tagmemics
[ tag-mee-miks ]
/ tægË?mi mɪks /
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noun (used with a singular verb)Linguistics.
a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.
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OTHER WORDS FROM tagmemics
tag·me·mi·cist [tag-mee-muh-sist], /tægË?mi mÉ™ sɪst/, nounWords nearby tagmemics
Taglioni, taglock, tagma, tagmeme, tagmemic, tagmemics, Tagore, tag question, tagrag, tagrag and bobtail, tag sale
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British Dictionary definitions for tagmemics
tagmemics
/ (tæɡË?miË?mɪks) /
pl n
(functioning as singular) linguistics a type of grammatical analysis based on the concept of function in sentence slots and the determination of classes of words that can fill each slot
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