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The compositionality dimension is formulated functionally in terms of attribute-named Immediate Dominance (ID) relations, such as those of case, frame, or theta theories, which apply at every structural level, from morphophonological structure, through morphotactic structure to phrasal idiom structure. The lexically identifiable ranks in ID structure are near-universal, though different selections of the ranks of ID structure may be made in different languages. For languages like English or German, the ID ranks are:
Fuzzy compositionality is found between ID rank levels, such as the phonaesthetic onsets (English glow, glimmer, glisten, gleam, glitter; slip, slop, slime, sludge, slut, slink) between the morphophonemic and the morphemic levels, and the functional sequence or clitic sets (as in English isn't, German (il) m'a (dit), German mi'm (Rad gekommen)). Differing degrees of lexicalisation between individuals also lead to fuzzy areas, for example with word prosody (as in the `CONtroversy conTROversy', variation in hyphenation practice in English, or capitalisation in German deadjectival nominals, or innovative current tendencies in the spelling of compounds, such as `InterCity', `Winchester Festplatte').