noncompositional

== English == === Etymology === From non- +‎ compositional. === Adjective === noncompositional (not comparable) Alternative form of non-compositional. Antonym: compositional (Can we date this quote by James Myers and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinese[1]: To cite a textbook example, white house and White House are both written with internal spaces, but the first is argued to be a phrase because it is semantically compositional and has phrase-final stress, while the latter is argued to be a word because it has noncompositional semantics and compound-initial stress. ==== Derived terms ====