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perintegration en · NOUN

Etymology

From per- + integration.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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. 2011, Ewa Jędrzejko, “The problematics of describing periphrastic predication Between word and image”, in Studies in Polish Linguistics, volume 6, number 1:

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