The Principle of Semantic Compositionality

By Francis Jeffry Pelletier. 1994

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Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Syntax in Vector Space Models of Compositional Semantics (2013, unknown): “(Frege, 1892; Pelletier, 1994).”
• Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision (2012, background): “The principle of semantic compositionality states the meaning of a (syntactically complex) whole is a function only of the meanings of its (syntactic) parts together with the manner in which these parts were combined (Pelletier, 1994).”
• You Don't Know How You Think: Introspection and Language of Thought (2005, background): “criticized, given that it is not obvious that the semantics of natural languages satisfies it (for a discussion of the semantic compositionality of natural languages, see, e.g., Partee [1984]; Pelletier [1994] ).”