Tagmeme
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For the Tagmemics punk band, see The Art Attacks.
"Noeme" redirects here. For the agent of the global brain, see Technoself § Noeme.
"Pheneme" redirects here. Not to be confused with Phememe.
A tagmeme is the smallest functional element in the grammatical structure of a language. The term was introduced in the 1930s by the linguist Leonard Bloomfield, who defined it as the smallest meaningful unit of grammatical form (analogous to the morpheme, defined as the smallest meaningful unit of lexical form). The term was later adopted, and its meaning broadened, by Kenneth Pike and others beginning in the 1950s, as the basis for their tagmemics.