Compositionality as an Empirical Problem

3 Some empirical questions about natural language compositionality 9 3.1 The core of Frege’s Principle: semantics as homomorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2 Is the ’homomorphism’ model the right starting point? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.3 Kinds of non-homomorphic semantic rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.4 Rule-to-Rule input with delayed effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5 Type-shifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.6 Imposing a uniform category-to-meaning mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.7 ‘Curry-Howard’ semantics, “radical lexicalism” and Type-Logical Syntax . . . . . . . 16

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