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Direct Compositionality (Paperback)
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Direct Compositionality (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 14
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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 a
process in which the syntax builds representations which, at the
abstract level of logical form, are sent for interpretation to the
semantics component of the language faculty. In the first extended
discussion of the hypothesis of direct compositionality for twenty
years, this book considers whether its abandonment might have been
premature and whether in fact direct compositionality is not after
all a simpler and more effective conception of the grammar than the
conventional account of the syntax-semantics interface in
generative grammar. It contains contributions from both sides of
the debate, locates the debate in the setting of a variety of
formal theories, and draws on examples from a range of languages
and a range of empirical phenomena.
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