Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A minimal linguistic feature, such as the order or stress of words in a compound or phonemes in a word.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek taxis, arrangement; see taxis + –eme.]
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mollusque commented on the word taxeme
A unit of syntactic relationship (listed in OED2).
I don't really know what that means. One of the quotations in OED says, "A taxeme is in grammar what a phoneme is in the lexicon--namely, the smallest unit of form."
November 5, 2007