No. 53 (2017): Julio-diciembre
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The Compositionality of Language Revisited

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  • Mariela Destefano
Mariela Destefano
Universidad de Buenos Aires Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i53.844

Published 2017-07-01

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Destefano, M. (2017). The Compositionality of Language Revisited. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, (53), 51. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i53.844
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Abstract

In this paper, I shall try to show that language is compositional assuming the minimalist program as a starting point. I will adopt the minimalist notion of “I-language”, and will argue that the output of I-language is compositional given (i) general restrictions of cognitive architecture and (ii) intrinsic restrictions of the computational mechanism of language processing. I will offer an inference to the best explanation: compositional semantics of the expressions of I-language would provide the best way to account for the computational generation of such expressions as well as an optimal solution to the interface conditions.

 


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