Anomaly
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Anomaly is the phenomenon that a sentence is meaningless because there is an incompatibility in the meaning of the words.
Example
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
Here at least colourless, green, and ideas have incompatible meanings.
Comment
It is unclear whether anomaly is a linguistic phenomenon.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Chomsky, Noam A. 1957. Syntactic structures. Mouton, The Hague.
- Chomsky, Noam A. 1965. Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
