— glossematic , adj.
/glos'euh mat"iks, glaw'seuh-/ , n. ( used with a sing. v. ) Ling.
a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
[ 1935-40; GLOSSEME + -atics, on the model of Gk formations such as phónema speech (s. phonemat- ), adj. deriv. phonematikós (cf. PHONEME), and the names of disciplines formed from such adjs., as MATHEMATICS ]