perintegration

English

Etymology

From per- +‎ integration.

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Noun

perintegration (countable and uncountable, plural perintegrations)

1. (linguistics) A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.
   • 1994, Miroslav Komárek, “Prague School Morphonology”, in The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics: A Short Introduction, page 61:

     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).

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2011, Ewa Jędrzejko, “The problematics of describing periphrastic predication Between word and image”, in Studies in Polish Linguistics, volume 6, number 1:

     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.

Anagrams

• interoperating, preintegration