Why Compositionality?

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In Greg N. Carlson & Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Reference and Quantification: The Partee Effect. CSLI Publications. pp. 83--106 (2005)
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The paper identifies some background assumptions of compositionality in formal semantics and investigates how they shape formal semantics as a scientific discipline

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Dynamic predicate logic.Jeroen Groenendijk & Martin Stokhof - 1991 - Linguistics and Philosophy 14 (1):39-100.
Language, Thought and Compositionality.Jerry Fodor - 2001 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 48:227-242.

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