plerematic

English

Etymology

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Adjective

plerematic (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Pertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.
   • 1961, Journal of the American Oriental Society - Volume 81, page 306:

     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.

   • 1983, Florian Coulmas, Konrad Ehlich, Writing in Focus, →ISBN, page 52:

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

   • 1998, Mark Janse, Productivity and Creativity, →ISBN:

     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.