Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of non-compositional.
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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.
, Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinesehttps://web.archive.org/web/20221006165522/http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/Myers_Ch3_WordsDisyl_Chapter.pdfAntonyms: compositional
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noncompositional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncompositional
“noncompositional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncompositional. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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