Lexical integrity hypothesis
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title:
Lexical integrity hypothesis
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The lexical integrity hypothesis (LIH) or lexical integrity principle is a hypothesis in linguistics which states that syntactic transformations do not apply to subparts of words. It functions as a constraint on transformational grammar. Words are analogous to atoms in that, from the point of view of syntax, words do not have any internal structure and are impenetrable by syntactic operations. The ideas of this theory are complicated when considering the hierarchical levels of word formation and
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encyclopedia
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Hypothesis in linguistics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_integrity_hypothesis
date created:
2010-07-29T10:26:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T13:39:00Z
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