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noun
The smallest irreducible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; the basic unit of language in the theory of glossematics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From gloss- + -eme, coined by Louis Hjelmslev and Hans Jørgen Uldall in the 1930s.
Across languages
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