Abstract

DESTEFANO, Mariela. The Compositionality of Language Revisited. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2017, n.53, pp.51-83. ISSN 0188-6649.

In this paper, I shall try to show that language is compositional assuming the minimalist program as a starting point. I will adopt the minimalist notion of "I-language", and will argue that the output of I-language is compositional given (i) general restrictions of cognitive architecture and (ii) intrinsic restrictions of the computational mechanism of language processing. I will offer an inference to the best explanation: compositional semantics of the expressions of I-language would provide the best way to account for the computational generation of such expressions as well as an optimal solution to the interface conditions.

Keywords : I-language; merge; conceptual-intentional interface; minimalist program.

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