Phraseme

Quick meaning: Phraseme is a noun meaning (linguistics) An utterance, consisting of multiple words or morphemes, at least one of whose components is selectionally constrained or restricted by linguistic convention such that it is not freely chosen; a lexicalized multi-word expression.

Meaning

(linguistics) An utterance, consisting of multiple words or morphemes, at least one of whose components is selectionally constrained or restricted by linguistic convention such that it is not freely chosen; a lexicalized multi-word expression.

Example Sentences

Phrasemes are multiword expression which are units of the lexicon.

A phraseme is a linguistic entity, consisting of at least two items, the meaning of which is characterised by semantic irregularity, that is to say, the meaning of a phraseme is not arrived at by the composition of the meanings of its lexical constituents, but it is understood as semantically independent of these.

Word Forms

• phrasemes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phrasal, phrasehood, pheneme, phraseologism, term, polyword.

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