by Marcus Kracht (Author)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 222
Edition: 1st Edition.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 06 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 9400721072
ISBN 13: 9789400721074