The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality

Wolfram Hinzen, Edouard Machery, and Markus Werning: Introduction; Part I: History and Overview; 1 Theo Janssen: Compositionality: Its Historic Context; 2 Marcus Kracht: Compositionality in Montague Grammar; 3 Zoltan Szabo: The Case for Compositionality; 4 Ede Zimmermann: Compositionality Problems and How to Solve Them; Part II: Compositionality in Language; 5 Sebastian Lobner: Sub-Compositionality; 6 Pauline Jacobson: Direct Compositionality; 7 Jeff Pelletier: Holism and Compositionality; 8 Francois Recanati: Compositionality, Flexibility, and Context-dependence; 9 Dag Westerstahl: Compositionality in Kaplan Style Semantics; 10 Paul Pietroski: Semantic Monadicity with Conceptual Polyadicity; Part III: Compositionality in Formal Semantics; 11 Wilfrid Hodges: Formalising the Relationship Between Meaning and Syntax; 12 Tim Fernando: Compositionality in Discourse From a Logical Perspective; 13 Gabriel Sandu: Compositionality and the Context Principle; Part IV: Lexical Decomposition; 14 Dieter Wunderlich: Lexical Decomposition in Grammar; 15 Wolfram Hinzen: Syntax in the Atom; 16 Heidi Harley: Lexical Decomposition in Modern Syntactic Theory; 17 James Pustejovsky: Co-compositionality; Part V: The Compositionality of Mind; 18 Lila Gleitman,Andrew Connolly, and Sharon L. Armstrong: Can Prototype Representations Support Composition and Decomposition?; 19 James Hampton and Martin Jonsson: Typicality and Compositionality: The Logic of Combining Vague Concepts; 20 Edward Wisniewski and Jing Wu: Emergency!!! Challenges to a Compositional Understanding of Noun-noun Combinations; 21 Edouard Machery and Lisa Lederer: Simple Heuristics for Concept Combination; 22 Jesse Prinz: Regaining Composure: A Defense of Prototype Compositionality; Part VI: Evolutionary and Communicative Success of Compositional Structures; 23 Gerhard Schurz: Prototypes and their Composition from an Evolutionary Point of View; 24 Kenny Smith and Simon Kirby: Compositionality and Linguistic Evolution; 25

Markus Werning is Professor of Philosophy of Language and Cognition at the Ruhr University of Bochum. He is author of the book The Compositional Brain: Neuronal Foundations of Conceptual Representation (Mentis, 2010). ; Wolfram Hinzen is Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Durham. His books include Mind Design and Minimal Syntax and An Essay on Names and Truth (OUP, 2006, 2007). ; Edouard Machery is Associate Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh. His book Doing without Concepts was published by OUP in 2009.

"The editors should be commended for also having the vision to create a forward-looking volume that highlights both current debates in the field as well as speculative theoretical questions that will likely shape and direct future research endeavors in the years to come. The editors did an excellent job of bringing together academics with various, diverse specializations to contribute to a volume with such a broad scope of coverage...this volume and its contents will undoubtedly have a high impact in various fields of language science for years to come."--Linguist List