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Compositionality

Compositionality meaning

The property of being compositional.

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For an example of the discussion of the difficulty that the non-compositionality of idioms has motivated, see for instance Culicver and Jackendoff (2005:32ff.).

See the section on Compositionality below.

The catena-based analysis of idioms provides a basis for an understanding of meaning compositionality.

The Principle of Compositionality can in fact be maintained.

The principle of compositionality is introduced and explained at an introductory level by Portner (2005:33f).