| Ziff, P (1960). Semantic Analysis. Ithica: Cornell University Press. |
....air) and so on. It s because the meaning of good is syncategorematic and has a variable in it for relevant interests, that you can know that a good flurg is a flurg that answers to the relevant interest in flurgs without knowing what flurgs are or what the relevant interest in flurgs is. See Ziff, 1960). In any event, the main argument stands: systematicity depends on compositionality, so to the extent that a natural language is systematic it must be compositional too. This illustrates another respect in which systematicity arguments can do the work for which productivity arguments have ....
Ziff, P (1960). Semantic Analysis. Ithica: Cornell University Press.
....a variety of lexically governed effects on logical form other than light verb introduction. For example we think it s plausible that good introduces a quantifier into the interpretation of good NP; roughly, a good NP is one that is good for whatever it is that NPs are supposed to be good for (cf. Ziff 1960). Notice that this treatment makes good context insensitive; good quantifies over the function of the NP it modifies, and the way it does so is independent of which NP it is. Since the meaning of good is context independent, the lexical entry for the NP needn t specify a telos ; so, JP to the ....
Ziff, P. (1960) Semantic Analysis, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
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