Grammeme
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A grammeme in linguistics
is a unit of grammar
, just as a lexeme
is a lexical unit and a morpheme
is a morphological unit.
More specifically, a grammeme is a value of a grammar category. For example, singular and plural are grammemes of the category Grammatical number
, noun and verb are grammemes of the category Part of speech, etc.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
is a unit of grammar
Grammar
In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics,...
, just as a lexeme
Lexeme
A lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single word. For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, conventionally written as RUN...
is a lexical unit and a morpheme
Morpheme
In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest semantically meaningful unit in a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word,...
is a morphological unit.
More specifically, a grammeme is a value of a grammar category. For example, singular and plural are grammemes of the category Grammatical number
Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions ....
, noun and verb are grammemes of the category Part of speech, etc.