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Anomaly

SEMANTICS: the phenomenon that a sentence is meaningless because there is an incompatibility in the meaning of the words. EXAMPLE: Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. Here at least colourless, green, and ideas have incompatible meanings. It is unclear whether anomaly is a linguistic phenomenon.
LIT. Chomsky, N. (1957)
Chomsky, N. (1965)