ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Perintegration

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Perintegration is a noun meaning (linguistics) A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.

Meaning

(linguistics) A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.

Example Sentences

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.
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).
It is also due to the fact that the integrated meaning of the VNA is not only a simple sum of meanings of its constituent elements, according to the rule 'more words equals more content', but results as well from a peculiar perintegration of meanings brought by all these elements.

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Related dictionary entries include reanalysis, xenization, re-etymologization, transterminologization, integration, syncretism.

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