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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464288903321

Titolo

The compositionality of meaning and content . Volume II : applications to linguistics, psychology and neuroscience / / Edouard Machery, Markus Werning, Gerhard Schurz (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt : , : Ontos Verlag, , 2005

ISBN

3-11-033286-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Linguistics & philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

MacheryEdouard

WerningMarkus

SchurzGerhard <1956->

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Compositionality (Linguistics)

Linguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Compositionality and language -- part II. Compositionality and the mind -- part III. Compositionality and the brain.

Sommario/riassunto

The second volume is devoted to issues of compositionality that arouse in the sciences of language, the investigation of the mind, and the modeling of representational brain functions. How could compositional languages evolve? How many sentences are needed to learn a compositional language? How does compositionality relate to the interpretation of texts, the generation of idioms and metaphors, and the understanding of aberrant expressions? What psychological mechanism underlies the combination of complex concepts? And finally, what neuronal structure can possibly realize a compositional system of mental representations?