Katakana Japanese Katharévusa Greek Kekchi Mayan languages keneme [Grk kenós ‘empty’]

In glossematics, the smallest ‘empty’ units of the content plane (=phonological features) that together with the semantic features ( plereme) are subsumed under the term glosseme.

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glossematics

In the terminology of Z.S.Harris, a simple sentence that cannot be further reduced structurally or semantically. These minimal sentences form the syntactic nucleus of a language, and all other sentences can be derived from them using transformations. Thus

transformational grammar (represented by Chomsky 1957), kernel sentences are declarative sentences that are generated by rewrite rules and obligatory transformations and from which non-kernel sentences can be derived using optional transformations. For example, kernel sentences are those simple, active positive statements from which passives or negative statements and questions can be derived using optional transformations. The difference between kernel sentences and non-kernel sentences is discussed in the revised versions of the aspects model and is replaced by the concept of deep structure and surface structure.