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Some 20th-century introductions into linguistic vocabulary make use of the root: we find Bloomfield's glosseme and Hjelmslev's glossematics; the isoglottic line of linguistic geography; and glottochronology, Swadesh's system for dating the divergence of linguistic family members.
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the smallest basic unit of meaning in the theory of glossematics, a structuralist linguistic theory incorporated in semiotics. A glosseme can be lexical, where it is basically identical to the phoneme, or grammatical, where it represents the smallest unit of meaning (the signified), and forms a relationship with taxemes and tagmemes
Seems analogous to pheneme too.
(Not that i understand much of this)
final note: this word appears in Wiktionary, but not here.
July 30, 2021