COMPOSITIONALITY: An Essential Ingredient of Meaning

COMPOSITIONALITY: An Essential Ingredient of Meaning Samir Karmakar Meaning in western tradition develops under the general notion of semantics, in some different way. Whenever we are discussing about the meaning of a word, our basic inclination is to delimit our enquiry under the notion of "whatness". But because of being a locus of infinite qualifications, the object of our enquiry always remains out of our reach, in this situation. Not a single answer is competent …

…of an entity. Therefore it seems quite clear that the conceptual structure of a lexical entity is a representation of a lexical entity is a representation to include both the syntactic featyres, either in terms of categorical status (Ref. Pustojovsky), or in terms of lexical insertion rule (Ref. Chomsky) and the conceptual structure (Ref. Pustejovsky, Jackendoff). So thinking about semantics, means thinking beyond the syntax, but essentially residing inside the womb of syntax... -The End-