Compositional Interpretation in Which the Meanings of Complex Expressions are not Computable from the Meanings of their Parts
Peter Lasersohn · 2007
0. Introduction. The title of this paper should sound paradoxical. Isn’t it a matter of definition that in a compositional interpretation, the meanings of complex expressions are computed from the meanings of their parts? Certainly this would seem to be what many authors mean by the term compositional. In introductory textbooks, the idea of compositionality is often introduced by pointing out that if