Table Of ContentTHE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
COMPOSITIONALITY
OXFORD HANDBOOKS IN LINGUISTICS
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Second edition
Edited by Robert B. Kaplan
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CASE
Edited by Andrej Makhukov and Andrew Spencer
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE SYNTAX
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPOUNDING
Edited by Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Stekauer
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Edited by Ruslan Mitkov
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPOSITIONALITY
Edited by Markus Werning, Edouard Machery, and Wolfram Hinzen
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF FIELD LINGUISTICS
Edited by Nicholas Thieberger
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF GRAMMATICALIZATION
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF JAPANESE LINGUISTICS
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LABORATORY PHONOLOGY
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LANGUAGE AND LAW
Edited by Lawrence Solan and Peter Tiersma
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LINGUISTIC INTERFACES
Edited by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LINGUISTIC MINIMALISM
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF TRANSLATION STUDIES
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
COMPOSITIONALITY
Edited by
MARKUS WERNING,
WOLFRAM HINZEN,
and
EDOUARD MACHERY
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CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgements xi
The Contributors xii
Introduction 1
WOLFRAM HINZEN, MARKUS WERNING, AND
EDOUARD MACHERY
PART I HISTORY AND OVERVIEW
1. Compositionality: its historic context 19
THEO M. V. JANSSEN
2. Compositionality in Montague Grammar 47
MARCUS KRACHT
3. The case for Compositionality 64
ZOLTAN GENDLER SZABO
4. Compositionality problems and how to solve them 81
THOMAS EDE ZIMMERMANN
PART II COMPOSITIONALITY IN LANGUAGE
5. Direct Compositionality 109
PAULINE JACOBSON
6. Semantic monadicity with conceptual polyadicity 129
PAUL M. PIETROSKI
7. Holism and Compositionality 149
FRANCIS JEFFRY PELLETIER
VI CONTENTS
8. Compositionality, flexibility, and context dependence 175
FRANCOIS RECANATI
9. Compositionality in Kaplan style semantics 192
DAG WESTERSTAHL
10. Sub-compositionality 220
SEBASTIAN LOBNER
PART III COMPOSITIONALITY IN FORMAL
SEMANTICS
11. Formalizing the relationship between meaning and syntax 245
WILFRID HODGES
12. Compositionality and the Context Principle 262
GABRIEL SANDU
13. Compositionality in discourse from a logical perspective 279
TIM FERNANDO
PART IV LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION
14. Lexical decomposition in grammar 307
DIETER WUNDERLICH
15. Lexical decomposition in modern syntactic theory 328
HEIDI HARLEY
16. Syntax in the atom 351
WOLFRAM HINZEN
17. Co-compositionality in grammar 371
JAMES PUSTEJOVSKY
PART V THE COMPOSITIONALITY OF MIND
18. Typicality and Compositionality: the logic of combining
vague concepts 385
JAMES A. HAMPTON AND MARTIN L. JONSSON
CONTENTS Vll
19. Emergency!!!! Challenges to a compositional understanding
of noun-noun combinations 403
EDWARD J. WISNIEWSKI AND JING Wu
20. Can prototype representations support composition
and decomposition? 418
LILA R. GLEITMAN, ANDREW C. CONNOLLY, AND
SHARON LEE ARMSTRONG
21. Regaining composure: a defence of prototype
compositionality 437
JESSE J. PRINZ
22. Simple heuristics for concept combination 454
EDOUARD MACHERY AND LISA G. LEDERER
PART VI EVOLUTIONARY AND
COMMUNICATIVE SUCCESS
23. Compositionality and beyond: embodied meaning in language and
protolanguage 475
MICHAEL A. ARBIB
24. Compositionality and linguistic evolution 493
KENNY SMITH AND SIMON KIRBY
25. Communication and the complexity of semantics 510
PETER PAGIN
26. Prototypes and their composition from an evolutionary
point of view 530
GERHARD SCHURZ
PART VII NEURAL MODELS OF COMPOSITIONAL
REPRESENTATION
27. Connectionism, dynamical cognition, and non-classical
compositional representation 557
TERRY HORGAN
Vlll CONTENTS
28. The Dual-Mechanism debate 574
MARTINA PENKE
29. Compositionality and biologically plausible models 596
TERRENCE STEWART AND CHRIS ELIASMITH
30. Neuronal assembly models of Compositionality 616
ALEXANDER MAYE AND ANDREAS K. ENGEL
31. Non-symbolic compositional representation and its neuronal foundation:
towards an emulative semantics 633
MARKUS WERNING
32. The processing consequences of Compositionality 655
GIOSUE BAGGIO, MICHIEL VAN LAMBALGEN, AND PETER HAGOORT
References 673
Index 725
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
A adjective
ACG Abstract Categorial Grammar
AI artificial intelligence
an adjective-noun
ASL American Sign Langugage
CARIN competition among relations in nominals (model)
CE clarification ellipsis
CG Construction Grammar
CM catious monotonicity
CP Context Principle
GPL compositional (view of) protolanguage
CPM composite prototype model
CTF cognitive transititon function
CTM Computational Theory of Mind
DC Direct Compositionality
DC dynamical cognition (framework)
DCTF diachronic cognitive-transition function
DP determiner phrase
DP default inheritance of prototypical properties
DRS Discourse Representation Structure
DRT Discourse Representation Theory
DS default to the compositional stereotype strategy
E(CTM) (Essential) Computational Theory of Mind
EEG electroencephalograph
EEL English as a Formal Language (Montague 1970a)
E-language externalized language
ERPs event-related brain potentials
GQT Generalized Quantifier Theory
GRC Generalized Reflexion Principle
HCH hybrid content hypothesis
HPL holophrastic (view of) protolanguage
HPSG head-driven phrase structure grammar
HSS Homomorphy of syntactic and semantic composition
iff if and only if
