Definition of "syntagma" []

• A sequence of linguistic units in a syntagmatic relationship to one another. (noun)
• A sequence of words in a particular syntactic relationship to one another; a construction. (noun)

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• "Cagle also notes that The Film Experience is advanced and likely difficult, but I didn't find this to be particularly true for the second edition, though certain advanced terms are included syntagma is still there, as it should be!"
• "Despite the ultra-essentialist interpretation of Henry's metaphysics that began with Suárez, the syntagma esse essentiae does not designate a separate being, but only the fact that a res thus constituted has an objective content and so is objectively possible; that is, it can be placed in act by God."
• "The end of the signifier/signified dialectic which facilitates the accumulation of knowledge and of meaning, the linear syntagma of cumulative discourse."