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perintegration

perintegration noun: a secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.

Noun

perintegration (countable and uncountable, plural perintegrations)

  1. A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.
    • Morphemics is in the foreground, but the author had to touch upon morphonological issues as well, especially the boundaries between morphemes and the so-called" morphemic knots" (overlappings), perintegration (shift of a morpheme boundary).1994, Miroslav Komárek, “Prague School Morphonology”, in The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics: A Short Introduction, page 61
    • Depending upon the measure, semantic or formal decorrelation between two units leads to the existence of radix polysemy, delimitation of potential morphematic boundaries or perintegration in primary word formation structure.2009, M Ivanova, “Dynamic Aspect of the Word Formation in Motivation and it's Reflection in the Dictionary of Slovak Radix Morphemes”, in Slovenská reč (Slovak Language), volume 74, number 2

Forms of perintegration

pluralperintegrations

Origin of perintegration

From per- + integration.

Questions about perintegration

What does perintegration mean?
Perintegration means a secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.
What part of speech is perintegration?
Perintegration is a noun.
What is the plural of perintegration?
The plural of perintegration is perintegrations.

Words near perintegration in the dictionary

  1. perinsular
  2. perintegrate
  3. perintegrated
  4. perintegrates
  5. perintegrating
  6. perintegration
  7. perintegrations
  8. Perinton
  9. perinuclear
  10. perinuclearly
  11. perinuclei

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