Semantic compositionality

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Definition

We speak of semantic compositionality if the meaning of a complex word is a function of the meanings of its constituents.

Example

The meaning of English gerunds is fully compositional ('the state, action named by V').

Links

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

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