Meaning of noncompositional | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

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.”

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