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Given the definition of morpheme as " the smallest meaningful unit " Nanosyntax aims to account for idioms where it is often an entire syntactic tree which contributes " the smallest meaningful unit.

" An example idiom is " Don't let the cat out of the bag " where the idiom is composed of " let the cat out of the bag " and that might be considered a semantic morpheme, which is composed of many syntactic morphemes.

Other cases where the " smallest meaningful unit " is larger than a word include some collocations such as " in view of " and " business intelligence " where the words together have a specific meaning.