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• Lexical semantics
  ...onymy]], and [[hyponymy]]), [[thematic role]]s, fixed versus variable word meaning and [[polysemy]] and metaphoric and [[idiom]]atic interpretation.
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• Semantic compositionality
  We speak of '''semantic compositionality''' if the [[meaning]] of a [[complex word]] is a function of the meanings of its [[constituent] The meaning of English [[gerund]]s is fully compositional ('the state, action named by V').
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• Semantic coherence
  ...ing]] of a [[derivation|derivative]] is transparently a composition of the meaning of the [[base]] and that of the [[affix]]. Hence, the meaning of X''ousness'' words is fully compositional in meaning. This is not true for rival words of the form X''osity'' which have additio
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• Compositionality
  ...than one atomic unit. The meaning of a complex form is said to be '(fully) compositional' iff it can be derived in accordance with the [[Compositionality Principle]
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• Idiom
  ...nation of elements with an idiosyncratic, not (completely) [[compositional meaning]], such as ''kick the bucket'', ''spill the beans''.
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• Assignment
  ...variables makes it possible to interpret multiply quantified formulas in a compositional way. Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning.'' Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
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• Operator
  ...der to produce a new formula Ophi. The interpretation of this formula is a compositional function of the interpretation of phi. Negation is a truth-functional opera * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Aspect
  * Dowty, D. 1979. ''Word meaning and Montague grammar: the semantics of verbs and times in generative semant * Verkuyl, H.J. 1972. ''On the compositional nature of the aspects,'' Reidel, Dordrecht.
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• Tenses of English
  ...ect, future perfect has no parallel in a compositional derivation of their meaning”, König 1995: 155). ...e conditional tense and the conditional perfect. Declerck argues against a compositional analysis of combinatorial tenses. Aiming to account for the use of tenses i
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