Direct Compositionality and the Architecture of LFG

This principle is often called ‘Frege’s Principle’, although it is doubtful whether Frege himself formulated it (Janssen 1997, Hodges 1998, 2001). Hodges (2001:7) suggests that compositionality in the modern sense is more readily attributable to Tarski (1983 [1935]), the foundational work in truth-conditional semantics. Heim and Kratzer (1998:1–3) point out that Tarskian truth-conditional schemas can only be informative in light of compositionality. Despite its generally acknowledged importance to modern semantic theory, compositionality is in danger of becoming a shibboleth, because it is typically formulated sufficiently broadly that just about any semantic theory would satisfy it in some sense or other. In this light, recent