Plerematic

Quick meaning: Plerematic is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Pertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.

Meaning

(linguistics) Pertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.

Example Sentences

The delimitative devices or 'punctuation marks' here have the same type of structure as the other plerematic signs.

Thus in languages two strata are established, one plerematic and the other cenematic, which—in terms of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships—are organised entirely analogously.

With regard to the segregation of plerematic words into classes, Professor Dobson says: It is a feature of this description that "content or plerematic words" are not segregated into word-classes; rather, analysis is made of the types of distribution and environment in which they occur, such types of distribution being classified.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pleremic, syntacticosemantic, metalinguistic, metapragmatic, psycholinguistic, analytic.

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