monoseme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosemes
Senses: examples: text: The foot pattern for the baby caprine song is: diseme/monoseme/diseme/diseme.
ref: 2001, John William Johnson, “Computer Technology and the Study of Music and Prosody: The Case of Somali Oral Performance”, in Russell H. Kaschula, editor, African Oral Literature: Functions in Contemporary Contexts, →ISBN, page 7:
text: In a given poem, a monoseme contains a short vowel of one mora, and a diseme contains two moras.
ref: 2008, John William Johnson, “Music and Poetry in Somalia”, in Douglas Puchowski, editor, The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, volume 1, →ISBN, page 58:
text: But its primary meaning must be rhythmic, since it is not used to group notes longer than a monoseme […]
ref: 2011, Charles H. Cosgrove, An Ancient Christian Hymn with Musical Notation. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1786: Text and Commentary, →ISBN, page 116:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A single semeion or mora.
examples: text: Moreover, a word that is a monoseme in general language can be used equivocally in a special language.
ref: 1982, FID/CR Report Series, number 20, International Federation for Documentation, Committee on Classification Research, page 3:
text: As a dictionary search makes clear, preciously few ordinary words are monosemes, but they do exist: hippopotamus may be an example.
ref: 1993, Fred Riggs, “Social Science Terminology: Basic Problems and proposed Solutions”, in Helmi B. Sonneveld, Kurt L. Loening, editors, Terminology: Applications in Interdisciplinary Communication, →ISBN, page 207:
text: 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.
ref: 2015, Christian Kay, Kathryn Allan, English Historical Semantics, →ISBN, page 41:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
antonyms: polyseme
glosses: A monosemous term; a term with one meaning.
examples: text: A monoseme in the semantic respect is less than a word but in the syntactical configuration — more.
ref: 1972, Linguistics: An International Review, number 77, page 71:
text: 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.
ref: 1977, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Linguists, page 229:
text: 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.
ref: 1980, Vladimir A. Khomiakov, “Two typological features of nonstandard English and Russian vocabularies”, in New Zealand Slavonic Journal, number 2, →JSTOR, page 62:
text: 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 […]
ref: 2006, John Hewson, Vit Bubenik, From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, →ISBN, page ix:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: An underlying meaning of a word, more general than a sememe.