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Etymology edit

non- +‎ compositional

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noncompositional (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of non-compositional
    Antonym: compositional
    • James Myers, Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinese[1]:
      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.