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Date: 28-Nov-2011
From: Jolanda Voogd [Jolanda.Voogd at springer.com]
Subject: Interpreted Languages and Compositionality: Kracht


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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:17:40
From: Jolanda Voogd [Jolanda.Voogd at springer.com]
Subject: Interpreted Languages and Compositionality: Kracht

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Title: Interpreted Languages and Compositionality 
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Springer
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Book URL: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/book/978-94-007-2107-4?changeHeader 


Author: Marcus Kracht

Hardback: ISBN:  9789400721074 Pages: 222 Price: Europe EURO 99.95


Abstract:

This book argues that languages are composed of sets of 'signs', rather than 
'strings'. This notion, first posited by de Saussure in the early 20th century, has 
for decades been neglected by linguists, particularly following Chomsky's heavy 
critiques of the 1950s. Yet since the emergence of formal semantics in the 
1970s, the issue of compositionality has gained traction in the theoretical 
debate, becoming a selling point for linguistic theories.


Yet the concept of 'compositionality' itself remains ill-defined, an issue this 
book addresses. Positioning compositionality as a cornerstone in linguistic 
theory, it argues that, contrary to widely held beliefs, there exist non-
compositional languages, which shows that the concept of compositionality has 
empirical content. The author asserts that the existence of syntactic structure 
can flow from the fact that a compositional grammar cannot be delivered without 
prior agreement on the syntactic structure of the constituents. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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