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On the Triviality of the Principle of Compositionality
The principle of compositionality states that the meaning of an expression is a function of the meanings of its parts. The principle is based on Gottlob Frege’s works that consider linguistic meaning in the function-argument structure.
Tolgahan Toy
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Compositional Sequence Generation in the Entorhinal–Hippocampal System [PDF]
Neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex exhibit multiple, periodically organized, firing fields which collectively appear to form an internal representation of space. Neuroimaging data suggest that this grid coding is also present in other cortical areas
Daniel C. McNamee +3 more
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The Live Principle of Compositionality [PDF]
In this paper I argue that the principle of compositionality should be thought of as a principle that applies to the live meanings of constituent expressions. Under such a conception of the principle contextualist findings in the philosophy of language can be handled in an intuitive and non-trivial way.
Paul Dekker
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Abd-AL-Hameed Mustafa Mahmoud Jabsheh
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This study deals with meaning construction in idiomatic phrases (locutions figées/figements). We focus on three French idioms involving the word cœur (à contrecœur, de bon cœur, de tout cœur).
Thomas Bertin
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Ausdrucksarten – ein neuer Zugang zur Wortschatzvermittlung im DaF-Unterricht [PDF]
Word classes are one of the most successful and famous concepts of linguistics. They are an essential part of school grammar as well as of teaching German as a foreign language. Categorizing words in word classes is based on the assumptions that a) 'word'
Mathilde Hennig +1 more
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Formation of English Phraseological Units with Names of Professions
The paper considers cognitive aspects of phraseological meaning formation. The research aims at identifying the role of metaphorical and metonymic transference in the process of phraseologization.
Anzhela Tuarmenskaya +1 more
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Call combinations in birds and the evolution of compositional syntax. [PDF]
Syntax is the set of rules for combining words into phrases, providing the basis for the generative power of linguistic expressions. In human language, the principle of compositionality governs how words are combined into a larger unit, the meaning of ...
Toshitaka N Suzuki +2 more
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The myth of occurrence-based semantics [PDF]
The principle of compositionality requires that the meaning of a complex expression remains the same after substitution of synonymous expressions. Alleged counterexamples to compositionality seem to force a theoretical choice: either apparent synonyms ...
Pickel, Bryan, Rabern, Brian
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Information Theory–based Compositional Distributional Semantics
In the context of text representation, Compositional Distributional Semantics models aim to fuse the Distributional Hypothesis and the Principle of Compositionality.
Enrique Amigo +3 more
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