‘direct Compositionality: Is There Any Reason Why Not?’
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What follows are some skeptical thoughts on the first part of this rich and illuminating paper. My lack of comments on the second part should not indicate lack of interest, but instead reflect (a) that there is more than enough to discuss in the first part, and (b) it is unlikely that anything I can say about the second would be news to the linguists present at this meeting. I should also add that I am in full agreement about the gist of the paper: the recent shift in semantics towards LF-based accounts is not adequately supported by empirical argument. Reading Jacobson’s papers should convince everyone that great work can be done in developing grammars that countenance no transformations and no variables.
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