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Is the List a Form in Itself?
The hyphen is a punctuation mark that can bunch several different worlds together into a kind of nugget of a list that then becomes one single word. In rhetorical studies we call lists where you have just one word after the other articulus so that comes of course from the finger where you have your finger joints that also look like small biological lists as a way anatomical lists. The novelist Francis Spofford has a great essay at the start of his anthology of lists which he put together at the end of the 80s where he talks about this very issue and his view is that it's almost more of a rhetorical tool.
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