Meaning of perintegration | Babel Free

Definitions

A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Morphemics is in the foreground, but the author had to touch⟳ upon morphonological issues as well, especially the boundaries between morphemes and the so-called" morphemic knots" (overlappings), perintegration (shift of a morpheme boundary).”

“Depending upon the measure⟳, semantic or formal decorrelation between two units leads to the existence of radix polysemy, delimitation of potential morphematic boundaries or perintegration in primary word formation structure⟳.”

“It is also due to the fact that the integrated meaning of the VNA is not only a simple sum of meanings of its constituent elements, according to the rule⟳ 'more words equals more content', but results as well from a peculiar perintegration of meanings brought by all these elements.”

CEFR level