noncompositional

Adjective

 * 1) * James Myers, Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinese:
 * 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.
 * 1) * James Myers, Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinese:
 * 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.