Noncompositional
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Alternative form of non-compositional. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
"To cite a textbook example, white house and White House are both written with internal spaces, but the first is argued to be a phrase because it is semantically compositional and has phrase-final stress, while the latter is argued to be a word because it has noncompositional semantics and compound-initial stress."
Example
More examples"To cite a textbook example, white house and White House are both written with internal spaces, but the first is argued to be a phrase because it is semantically compositional and has phrase-final stress, while the latter is argued to be a word because it has noncompositional semantics and compound-initial stress."
Etymology
From non- + compositional.