Context and Compositionality
Adrian Briciu
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Context and Compositionality

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This book explores a central debate within the foundations of formal semantics and philosophy of language. Is the very project of formal semantics, viable? Or, the existence of pervasive forms of context-sensitivity and the apparent unruliness of language use threatens it? As a way of answering this question, the book investigates a precise claim: assuming that the meaning of natural language expressions partly depend on the context of their use, can this dependency be accommodated within a compositional framework? The first two chapters lay out a general meta-semantic framework in which claim...