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By surface analysis, dis- + lexi- + -ification.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The linguistic pattern whereby a given language must encode separate meanings using separate words, as opposed to colexifying them with a single polysemous word. Full definition →
By surface analysis, dis- + lexi- + -ification.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.