glossematics

[ glos-uh-mat-iks, glaw-suh- ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.

Other Words From

• glosse·matic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of glossematics¹

1935–40; glosseme + -atics, on the model of Greek formations such as phṓnēma speech (stem phōnēmat- ), adj. derivative phōnēmatikós ( phoneme ), and the names of disciplines formed from such adjectives, as mathematics