Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesPertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.
The delimitative devices or 'punctuation marks' here have the same type of structure as the other plerematic signs.
1983, Florian Coulmas, Konrad Ehlich, Writing in Focus, →ISBN, page 522 more examples
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.
1961, Journal of the American Oriental Society - Volume 81, page 306Thus in languages two strata are established, one plerematic and the other cenematic, which—in terms of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships—are organised entirely analogously.
1998, Mark Janse, Productivity and Creativity, →ISBN
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