Direct Compositionality

by Chris Barker, Pauline I. Jacobson, Pauline Jacobson

This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality", which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. Although associated with the dominant view in formal semantics of the 1970s and 1980s, the feasibility of direct compositionality remained unsettled, and more recently the discussion as to whether or not this view can be maintained has receded. The syntax-semantics interaction is now often seen as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199204381
• ISBN13: 9780199204380
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"