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Zusatztext The editors should be commended for also having the vision to create a forward-looking volume that highlights both current debates in the field as well as speculative theoretical questions that will likely shape and direct future research endeavors in the years to come. The editors did an excellent job of bringing together academics with various, diverse specializations to contribute to a volume with such a broad scope of coverage...this volume and its contents will undoubtedly have a high impact in various fields of language science for years to come. Informationen zum Autor Markus Werning is Professor of Philosophy of Language and Cognition at the Ruhr University of Bochum. He is author of the book The Compositional Brain: Neuronal Foundations of Conceptual Representation (Mentis, 2010). Wolfram Hinzen is Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Durham. His books include Mind Design and Minimal Syntax and An Essay on Names and Truth (OUP, 2006, 2007). Edouard Machery is Associate Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh. His book Doing without Concepts was published by OUP in 2009. Klappentext Leading linguists and philosophers report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts. This book explores every dimension of this field, reporting critically on different lines of research, revealing connections between them, and highlighting current problems and opportunities. Zusammenfassung Leading linguists and philosophers report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts. This book explores every dimension of this field, reporting critically on different lines of research, revealing connections between them, and highlighting current problems and opportunities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: History and Overview 1: Theo Janssen: Compositionality: Its Historic Context 2: Marcus Kracht: Compositionality in Montague Grammar 3: Zoltan Szabo: The Case for Compositionality 4: Ede Zimmermann: Compositionality Problems and How to Solve Them Part II: Compositionality in Language 5: Sebastian Löbner: Sub-Compositionality 6: Pauline Jacobson: Direct Compositionality 7: Jeff Pelletier: Holism and Compositionality 8: Francois Recanati: Compositionality, Flexibility, and Context-dependence 9: Dag Westerstahl: Compositionality in Kaplan Style Semantics 10: Paul Pietroski: Semantic Monadicity with Conceptual Polyadicity Part III: Compositionality in Formal Semantics 11: Wilfrid Hodges: Formalising the Relationship Between Meaning and Syntax 12: Tim Fernando: Compositionality in Discourse From a Logical Perspective 13: Gabriel Sandu: Compositionality and the Context Principle Part IV: Lexical Decomposition 14: Dieter Wunderlich: Lexical Decomposition in Grammar 15: Wolfram Hinzen: Syntax in the Atom 16: Heidi Harley: Lexical Decomposition in Modern Syntactic Theory 17: James Pustejovsky: Co-compositionality Part V: The Compositionality of Mind 18: Lila Gleitman,Andrew Connolly, and Sharon L. Armstrong: Can Prototype Representations Support Composition and Decomposition? 19: James Hampton and Martin Jönsson: Typicality and Compositionality: The Logic of Combining Vague Concepts 20: Edward Wisniewski and Jing Wu: Emergency!!! Challenges to a Compositional Understanding of Noun-noun Combinations 21: Edouard Machery and Lisa Lederer: Simple Heuristics for Concept Combination 22: Jesse Prinz: Regaining Composure: A Defense of Prototype Compositionality Part VI: Evolutionary and Communicative Success of Compositional Structures 23: Gerhard Schurz: Prototypes and their Composition from an Evolutionary Point of View 24: Kenny Smith and Simon Kirby: Compos...
