Pure quotation and general compositionality
Résumé
Starting from the familiar observation that no straightforward treatment of pure quotation can be compositional in the standard (homomorphism) sense, we introduce , which can be described as compositionality that takes linguistic context into account. A formal notion of linguistic is developed, allowing the context type of a complex expression to be distinct from those of its constituents. We formulate natural conditions under which an ordinary meaning assignment can be non-trivially extended to one that is sensitive to context types and satisfies general compositionality. As our main example we work out a Fregean treatment of pure quotation, but we also indicate that the method applies to other kinds of context, e.g. intensional contexts.
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LinguistiqueOrigine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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