By Karla Erika García Luis Tagmemic Grammar By Karla Erika García Luis

Who's Pike ? Tagmemic Grammar is a theory of grammar involving concept of a tagmeme to convey formal and functional information developed by American Grammarian Kenneth L. Pike. Dr. Kenneth L. Pike, 1912 - 2000 • Professor o f Linguistics at the University o f Michigan. • President of the Linguistic Society of America and SIL International. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on 15 consecutive years.

• Also known for his entertaining stories, poetry and songs and his blue cape. • He would fit right in the Perl community. Pike developed tagmemics while doing field research and teching linguistics. • He wanted a theory that was easy to learn and easy to use... • ...but complex enough to explain real language. Tagmeme is the smallest meaningful unit of grammatical form.

TAGMEMIC GRAMMAR Example: Run! This contains two grammatical features (taxemes) namely; the modulation of exclamatory final pitch, and the selective feature which consists in the use of an infinitive verb. Each of these two taxemes happens to be, in English, a tactic form, since each is currently used as a unit of signaling.

Tagmeme may consist of more than one taxeme. Examples: John ran, poor John ran away In these examples we find several taxemes. Kenneth L. Pike's evolving linguistic theory, tagmemics, has focused from its inception upon solving the problems Bible translators face in understanding and describing languages in primarily oral cultures. 

Tagmemics differs from alternative systems of grammatical analysis in that it defines the basic units of language (tagmemes) as composite elements, one part being the “slot,” or “function,” and the other the “filler,” or “class.” 

Any element can be analyzed in one of 3 ways: – Particle: each element is a discrete unit. – Wave: elements are defined by a nucle us. – Field: relation ships between elements are what matters.

A tagmeme is a unit -in -context. • Tagmemes a refractal. • A tagmeme has 4 parts: slot, role, class and cohesion.

References https://www.lohutok.net/talks/tagmemics.pdf https://www.britannica.com/topic/tagmemics#ref1 1453 https://es.slideshare.net/biraytiful/presentation- of-tagmemic-grammar