neologistic paraphasia neologism, paraphasia Neo-South Arabic Semitic Nepali Indo-Aryan nesting

In the semantic theory of U.Weinreich, a construction consisting of two constituents whose semantic features, when taken together, do not result in a cluster (i.e. a subset). If to write has the features [a, b] and letter the features [c, d], then the phrase to write a letter is a ‘nesting’ construction. Presumably, nesting allows for more convincing derivations of sentence meaning. ( also interpretive semantics)

Reference

Weinreich, U. 1966. Explorations in semantic theory. In T.A.Sebeok (ed.), Current trends in linguistics. The Hague. Vol. 3, 395-477.