From compositional to systematic semantics

Details From compositional to systematic semantics From compositional to systematic semantics

1995-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9503024v1

Linguistics and Philosophy(17):329-342, 1994

Computer Science

Computation and Language

11 pp. Latex.;

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We prove a theorem stating that any semantics can be encoded as a compositional semantics, which means that, essentially, the standard definition of compositionality is formally vacuous. We then show that when compositional semantics is required to be "systematic" (that is, the meaning function cannot be arbitrary, but must belong to some class), it is possible to distinguish between compositional and non-compositional semantics. As a result, we believe that the paper clarifies the concept of compositionality and opens a possibility of making systematic formal comparisons of different systems of grammars.

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