Interpreted Languages and Compositionality |
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| Author:
| Kracht, Marcus |
| Series title: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-94-007-2108-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Publisher: | Springer London, Limited
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $159.00 |
Book Description:
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Since the rise of formal semantics in the 1970s, the issue of 'compositionality' has gained traction in linguistics. This book argues that there exist non-compositional languages. Moreover, syntactic structure can be motivated from the requirement of providing a compositional grammar.
Since the rise of formal semantics in the 1970s, the issue of 'compositionality' has gained traction in linguistics. This book argues that there exist non-compositional languages. Moreover, syntactic structure can be motivated from the requirement of providing a compositional grammar.