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100 1 _aKracht, Marcus.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aInterpreted Languages and Compositionality
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Marcus Kracht.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2011.
300 _aX, 214 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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490 1 _aStudies in Linguistics and Philosophy,
_x0924-4662 ;
_v89
505 0 _aSynopsis -- String Languages -- Compositionality -- Meanings -- Examples -- Conclusion -- Useful Mathematical Concepts and Notation -- Symbols -- Index -- Bibliography.
520 _aThis book argues that languages are composed of sets of ‘signs’, rather than ‘strings’. This notion, first posited by de Saussure in the early 20th century, has for decades been neglected by linguists, particularly following Chomsky’s heavy critiques of the 1950s. Yet since the emergence of formal semantics in the 1970s, the issue of compositionality has gained traction in the theoretical debate, becoming a selling point for linguistic theories. Yet the concept of ‘compositionality’ itself remains ill-defined, an issue this book addresses. Positioning compositionality as a cornerstone in linguistic theory, it argues that, contrary to widely held beliefs, there exist non-compositional languages, which shows that the concept of compositionality has empirical content. The author asserts that the existence of syntactic structure can flow from the fact that a compositional grammar cannot be delivered without prior agreement on the syntactic structure of the constituents.
650 0 _aLinguistics.
650 0 _aLogic.
650 0 _aLinguistics
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aComputer science.
650 0 _aSemantics.
650 1 4 _aLinguistics.
650 2 4 _aSemantics.
650 2 4 _aLogic.
650 2 4 _aMathematical Logic and Formal Languages.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Language.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aStudies in Linguistics and Philosophy,
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