Meaning of monoseme | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A single semeion or mora.
2. A monosemous term; a term with one meaning.
3. An underlying meaning of a word, more general than a sememe.

Equivalents

Examples

“The foot pattern for the baby caprine song is: diseme/monoseme/diseme/diseme.”

“In a given poem, a monoseme contains a short vowel of one mora, and a diseme contains two moras.”

“But its primary meaning must be rhythmic, since it is not used to group notes longer than a monoseme […]”

“Moreover, a word that is a monoseme in general language can be used equivocally in a special language.”

“As a dictionary search⟳ makes clear, preciously few ordinary words are monosemes, but they do exist⟳: hippopotamus may be an example.”

“The simplest kind of word is a monoseme […] So many words develop⟳ additional meanings over time that it’s quite difficult to think⟳ of examples, but three possibilities are telephone, word-processor, giraffe – all fairly recent additions to the English vocabulary.”

“A monoseme in the semantic respect⟳ is less than a word but in the syntactical configuration — more.”

“Our observations made it clear that the new meanings, which emerged in the inner forms of the lexical units, had taken root under direct⟳ “pressure” of the monosemes of the confronted and identified counterpart in the source-language.”

“Thus, we suggest⟳ that in semantic structures of standard words there emerge⟳ nonstandard monosemes which are stylistically marked or socially determined and dependent on contexts and extra-linguistic situations.”

“In many modern studies the underlying meaning of a preposition such as over is seen as a group of related meanings, a sort⟳ of molecule. Others see⟳ it as a single meaning, a monoseme, or ideal meaning, Jakobson’s Gesamtbedeutung […]”

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