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tagmemics

tag·me·mics
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [tag-mee-miks]
    • /tægˈmi mɪks/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [tag-mee-miks]
    • /tægˈmi mɪks/

Definitions of tagmemics word

  • noun tagmemics 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. 1
  • noun plural tagmemics 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 0
  • noun tagmemics a theory of language viewing the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammar and emphasizing the function of structured grammatical units 0

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Origin of tagmemics

First appearance:

before 1945
One of the 6% newest English words
First recorded in 1945-50; tagmeme + -ics

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Parts of speech for Tagmemics

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

tagmemics popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 50% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for tagmemics

noun tagmemics

  • accidence — inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
  • accidences — the rudiments or essentials of a subject.
  • grammar — the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.
  • linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
  • morphology — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.

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