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Author:   Markus Werning ,  Wolfram Hinzen ,  Edouard Machery
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.459kg
ISBN:  

9780199541072

ISBN 10:   0199541078
Pages:   768
Publication Date:   09 February 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; PART I: HISTORY AND OVERVIEW; 1. Compositionality: Its Historic Context; 2. Compositionality in Montague Grammar; 3. The Case for Compositionality; 4. Compositionality Problems and How to Solve Them; PART II: COMPOSITIONALITY IN LANGUAGE; 5. Sub-Compositionality; 6. Direct Compositionality; 7. Holism and Compositionality; 8. Compositionality, Flexibility, and Context-dependence; 9. Compositionality in Kaplan Style Semantics; 10. Semantic Monadicity with Conceptual Polyadicity; PART III: COMPOSITIONALITY IN FORMAL SEMANTICS; 11. Formalising the Relationship Between Meaning and Syntax; 12. Compositionality in Discourse From a Logical Perspective; 13. Compositionality and the Context Principle; PART IV: LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION; 14. Lexical Decomposition in Grammar; 15. Syntax in the Atom; 16. Lexical Decomposition in Modern Syntactic Theory; 17. Co-compositionality; PART V: THE COMPOSITIONALITY OF MIND; 18. Can Prototype Representations Support Composition and Decomposition?; 19. Typicality and Compositionality: The Logic of Combining Vague Concepts; 20. Emergency!!! Challenges to a Compositional Understanding of Noun-noun Combinations; 21. Simple Heuristics for Concept Combination; 22. Regaining Composure: A Defense of Prototype Compositionality; PART VI: EVOLUTIONARY AND COMMUNICATIVE SUCCESS OF COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES; 23. Prototypes and their Composition from an Evolutionary Point of View; 24. Compositionality and Linguistic Evolution; 25. Compositionality and Holophrasis: From Action and Perception Through Protolanguage to Language; 26. Communication and the Complexity of Semantics; PART VII: NEURAL MODELS FO COMPOSITIONAL REPRESENTATION; 27. Connectionism, Dynamical Cognition, and Non-Classical Compositional Representation; 28. The Dual-Mechanism Debate; 29. Compositionality and Biologically Plausible Models; 30. Neural Assemblies, the Binding Problem, and Neural Synchrony; 31. Non-symbolic Compositional Representation and Its neuronal Foundation: Towards an Emulative Semantics; 32. The Processing Consequences of Compositionality; Appendix; References; Index

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