linguistic form

noun

1. any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.

Word History and Origins

Origin of linguistic form¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

This is the meaning and the significance of the linguistic form of negation.

From Project Gutenberg

Its earliest manifestations took, just as in Bohemia, a literary or linguistic form.

From Project Gutenberg