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glossematic

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glos⋅se⋅mat⋅ics

[glos-uh-mat-iks, glaw-suh-]
–noun (used with a singular verb) Linguistics.
a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.

Origin:
1935–40; glosseme + -atics, on the model of Gk formations such as phnēma speech (s. phōnēmat-), adj. deriv. phōnēmatikós (cf. phoneme ), and the names of disciplines formed from such adjs., as mathematics


glos⋅se⋅mat⋅ic, adjective
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