LING 165C Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Implicature, Syntactic Category, Principle Of Compositionality
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Direct compositionality: each syntactic rule which predicts the existence of some well-formed expression is paired with a semantic rule which gives the meaning of the output expression in terms of the meanings of the input expressions. Every expression of a language can be seen as a triple of. A rule is thus something which takes one or more triples as input and yields a triple as. Syncategorematically: e. g tr-1 introduces and directly as part of the rule rather than output. Tr-1: the conjunction rule treating it as an item in the lexicon with a grammatical category. The or conjugation implied that only one of the two conjuncts is true, this is just a suggestion and is what is known as an implicature rather than being part of the truth conditions. Tr-1 and tr-2 both ignore the fact that the value of a sentence is not 1 or 0 but a function of type
