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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Lexical integrity''' is a term used to refer to one of the most important properties of words, viz. the property that no syntactic process is allowed to refer to parts of a word.<br />
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=== Example ===<br />
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if we take the English compound ''teapot'', it is not allowed to move ''tea'' out of the compound by, for instance, topicalization (cf. *''Tea, I bought pots'' vs. ''Teapots, I bought''). It is furthermore impossible to refer to ''tea'' by using an anaphoric device such as a pronoun: we cannot say he took the ''tea<sub>i</sub> pot, and poured it<sub>i</sub> into the cup'', meaning 'he poured the tea into the cup'. See [[Lexicalist hypothesis]].<br />
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=== Link ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Lexical+integrity&lemmacode=608 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.<br />
* Lapointe, 1980. ''The Theory of Grammatical Agreement,'' PhD. diss. Univ. of Mass., Amherst.<br />
* Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.<br />
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