(in tagmemics) a slot in a syntactic frame which may be filled by any member of a set of appropriate linguistic items.
〔语言学〕（法位学中的）法位，序位
Example sentencesExamples
Then in 1964 he came up with the idea of setting up contrastive tagmemes of subject-as-actor in contrast to subject-as-goal.
The discussion of other work in syntax during those years is generally restricted to occasional references to the tagmemes of Kenneth Pike and the now-classic article on immediate constituents by Rulon Wells (Wells 1947).
In the same way as mentioned above, the sentence: "He likes books" consists of three tagmemes -- the `subject' slot filled by a pronoun, the `predicate' slot filled by transitive verb, and the `object' slot filled by a noun.
Tagmemics is a method of finding things out, of conceptualizing reality, and it is this method of conceptualization, rather than the tagmeme as an all-purpose tool, that [a guy named] Pike has brought to composition.
A tagmeme is described by a slot and class relationship (optionally including role and cohesion in the four-celled tagmeme).