Autor: Pauline Jacobson

This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality", which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. Although associated with the domina …

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment …

The work collected in this book represents the results of some intensive recent work on the syntax of natural languages. The authors’ differing viewpoints have in common the program of revising curre …