Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological
science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological …

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

Natural language allows us to refer to novel composite concepts by combining expressions
denoting their parts according to systematic rules, a property known as\emph …

Obtaining human-like performance in NLP is often argued to require compositional
generalisation. Whether neural networks exhibit this ability is usually studied by training …

Anything that deserves to be called a language must contain meaningful expressions built
up from other meaningful expressions. How are their complexity and meaning related? The …

Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for decades, and
it is increasingly prominent in many other areas of cognitive science. Its status, however …

This book focuses on the relationship between syntax and meaning. Terje Lohndal's core
claim is that it is possible to create a transparent mapping from syntax to logical form such …

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of
compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts …

Perception involves the processing of content or information about the world. In what form is
this content represented? I argue that perception is widely compositional. The perceptual …

Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers. He developed a
systematic picture of the human mind and its relation to the world, an original and sustained …