The Principle of Semantic Compositionality¶
Pelletier, F. J. (1994). The Principle of Semantic Compositionality. Topoi, 13(1), 11-24.
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- Compositionality
- Pelletier (1994) undertook critical assessment of the principle, identifying cases where apparent exceptions (idioms, metaphors, non-literal speech) challenge naive compositionality but do not refute it, given sufficiently sophisticated composition functions.
This sourceCritical assessment of the compositionality principle and its boundary conditions (idioms, metaphor, non-literal speech) — apparent exceptions that challenge but do not refute naive compositionality given richer composition functions (supports D22-225). NOTE: the .md wrongly gives the venue as 'Philosophy of Science 61(3)'; correct venue is Topoi 13(1):11–24.
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Pelletier discusses idioms as challenges and thinks they can be met with more sophisticated compositional functions, yet his overall stance is that compositionality is false; metaphor and non-literal speech are not treated.
“many of these sentences can be handled compositionally (indeed perhaps all of the ones I'll mention), still, and nonetheless, the overall conclusion was right: compositionality is false.”
- Pelletier (1994) undertook critical assessment of the principle, identifying cases where apparent exceptions (idioms, metaphors, non-literal speech) challenge naive compositionality but do not refute it, given sufficiently sophisticated composition functions.
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