noncompositionality
English
editEtymology
editFrom noncompositional + -ity.
Noun
editnoncompositionality (uncountable)
- (chiefly linguistics) Alternative form of non-compositionality.
- 2018, John McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge, page 25:
- However, no morphologist would argue that there is not a difference in degree of noncompositionality between that of goal kick and that of the hopelessly unparseable understand.