Compositional Interpretation in Which the Meanings of Complex Expressions are not Computable from the Meanings of their Parts
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Certainly this would seem to be what many authors mean by the term compositional. In introductory textbooks, the idea of compositionality is often introduced by pointing out that if there weren’t some systematic way of calculating the meanings of complex expressions from the meanings of their parts, we could not explain how speakers understand novel sentences, or indefinitely many sentences. The following passage from Larson and Segal (1995: 11-12) is representative; similar passages may be found in many other textbooks:
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