The Oxford handbook of compositionality / edited by Markus Werning, Wolfram Hinzen and Edouard Machery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Werning, Markus.

Hinzen, Wolfram.

Machery, Edouard.

Series:

Oxford handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compositionality (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xviii, 746 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Compositionality

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality focuses on a key notion in linguistics and philosophy, of central interest to researchers in psychology, neuroscience, and bio-informatics, written by leading scholars from all over the world Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I History and Overview

1 Compositionality: its historic context / Theo M. V. Janssen Janssen, Theo M. V. 19

2 Compositionality in Montague Grammar / Marcus Kracht Kracht, Marcus 47

3 The case for compositionality / Zoltán Gendler Szabó Szabó, Zoltán Gendler 64

4 Compositionality problems and how to solve them / Thomas Ede Zimmermann Zimmermann, Thomas Ede 81

Part II Compositionality in Language

5 Direct Compositionality / Pauline Jacobson Jacobson, Pauline 109

6 Semantic monadicity with conceptual polyadicity / Paul M. Pietroski Pietroski, Paul M. 129

7 Holism and compositionality / Francis Jeffry Pelletier Pelletier, Francis Jeffry 149

8 Compositionality, flexibility, and context dependence / François Recanati Recanati, François 175

9 Compositionality in Kaplan style semantics / Dag Westerståhl Westerståhl, Dag 192

10 Sub-compositionality / Sebastian Löbner Löbner, Sebastian 220

Part III Compositionality in Formal Semantics

11 Formalizing the relationship between meaning and syntax / Wilfrid Hodges Hodges, Wilfrid 245

12 Compositionality and the Context Principle / Gabriel Sandu Sandu, Gabriel 262

13 Compositionality in discourse from a logical perspective / Tim Fernando Fernando, Tim 279

Part IV Lexical Decomposition

14 Lexical decomposition in grammar / Dieter Wunderlich Wunderlich, Dieter 307

15 Lexical decomposition in modern syntactic theory / Heidi Harley Harley, Heidi 328

16 Syntax in the atom / Wolfram Hinzen Hinzen, Wolfram 351

17 Co-compositionality in grammar / James Pustejovsky Pustejovsky, James 371

Part V The Compositionality of Mind

18 Typicality and compositionality: the logic of combining vague concepts / James A. Hampton Hampton, James A., Martin L. Jönsson Jönsson, Martin L. 385

19 Emergency!!!! Challenges to a compositional understanding of noun-noun combinations / Edward J. Wisniewski Wisniewski, Edward J., Jing Wu Wu, Jing 403

20 Can prototype representations support composition and decomposition? / Lila R. Gleitman Gleitman, Lila R., Andrew C. Connolly Connolly, Andrew C., Sharon Lee Armstrong Armstrong, Sharon Lee 418

21 Regaining composure: a defence of prototype compositionality / Jesse J. Prinz Prinz, Jesse J. 437

22 Simple heuristics for concept combination / Edouard Machery Machery, Edouard, Lisa G. Lederer Lederer, Lisa G. 454

Part VI Evolutionary and Communicative Success

23 Compositionality and beyond: embodied meaning in language and protolanguage / Michael A. Arbib Arbib, Michael A. 475

24 Compositionality and linguistic evolution / Kenny Smith Smith, Kenny, Simon Kirby Kirby, Simon 493

25 Communication and the complexity of semantics / Peter Pagin Pagin, Peter 510

26 Prototypes and their composition from an evolutionary point of view / Gerhard Schurz Schurz, Gerhard 530

Part VII Neural Models of Compositional Representation

27 Connectionism, dynamical cognition, and non-classical compositional representation / Terry Horgan Horgan, Terry 557

28 The Dual-Mechanism debate / Martina Penke Penke, Martina 574

29 Compositionality and biologically plausible models / Terrence Stewart Stewart, Terrence, Chris Eliasmith Eliasmith, Chris 596

30 Neuronal assembly models of compositionality / Alexander Maye Maye, Alexander, Andreas K. Engel Engel, Andreas K. 616

31 Non-symbolic compositional representation and its neuronal foundation: towards an emulative semantics / Markus Werning Werning, Markus 633

32 The processing consequences of compositionality / Giosuè Baggio Baggio, Giosuè, Michiel van Lambalgen Lambalgen, Michiel van, Peter Hagoort Hagoort, Peter 655.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [673]-724) and index.

ISBN:

9780199541072

0199541078

OCLC:

780277456