Why Compositionality?

In Greg N. Carlson & Francis Jeffry Pelletier (eds.), Reference and Quantification: The Partee Effect. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp. 83--106 (2005)
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The paper identifies some background assumptions of compositionality in formal semantics and investigates how they shape formal semantics as a scientific discipline

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