Open Compositionality

Open Compositionality: Towards a Methodology of Language offers a fresh view into human languages as supermodular, highly interactive cognitive capacities allowing for human unique thought and communication. It is a novel account of semantics as decision-making in tandem with the cognition first methodology.

Eduardo García-Ramírez

Preface 1. Two Views of Language 2. The Closed View and Strong Compositionality 3. The Failure of Strong Compositionality 4. Open Compositionality and the Cognition First Methodology 5. Lexical Processing Architecture and Substitution Failure 6. Decoupled Representations and Empty Names 7. Moral Discourse, Moral Cognition and the Language Analogy Bibliography