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17.1 Basic Mechanisms of Selection 17.1 Basic Mechanisms of Selection
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17.2 Co-compositional Mechanisms 17.2 Co-compositional Mechanisms
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17.3 Further Extensions of Co-composition 17.3 Further Extensions of Co-composition
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17.4 Future Directions 17.4 Future Directions
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17 Co-composition Ality in Grammar
Get accessJames Pustejovsky holds the TJX/Feldberg Chair in Computer Science at Brandeis University, where he conducts research in the theoretical and computational mod-elling of language, specifically: computational semantics; lexical meaning; knowledge representation; temporal and event reasoning; and spatial semantics. He also directs the Laboratory of Linguistics and Computation and is Chair of the Language and Linguistics Program. His work in Generative Lexicon Theory explores the computa-tional nature of compositionality in natural language, while focusing on the interface between lexical semantics and compositional mechanisms in language. Pustejovsky has been active in developing semantic annotation standards for temporal and event information in natural language, and is the chief architect of TimeML. He is cur-rently involved in spatial reasoning and annotation and is editor of the ISO work item, ISO-Space.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
This article provides an introduction to co-compositionality in grammar. Co-compositionality is a semantic property of a linguistic expression in which all constituents contribute functionally to the meaning of the entire expression. The notion of co-compositionality is a characterization of how a system constructs the meaning from component parts. An expression in a language is the set of computations within a specific system that should be characterized as co-compositional for those expressions. The local context is supplying additional information to the meaning of the predicate that is not inherently part of the verb's meaning—the completive aspect which inheres in the resultative constructions. Co-compositionality is the introduction of new information to an expression by the argument, beyond what it contributes as an argument to the function within the phrase.
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