%0 Journal Article
%A Gil, David
%+ Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Bare and constructional compositionality (advance online) : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-9942-D
%R 10.1007/s10764-022-00343-6
%7 2023-01-19
%D 2023
%8 19.01.2023
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X This paper proposes a typology of compositionality as manifest in human language and animal communication. At the heart of the typology is a distinction between bare compositionality, in which the meaning of a complex expression is determined solely by the meanings of its constituents, and constructional compositionality, in which the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its constituents and also by various aspects of its structure. Bare and constructional compositionality may be observed in human language as well as in various animal communication systems, including primates and birds. Architecturally, bare compositionality provides the foundations for constructional compositionality, while phylogenetically, bare compositionality is a potential starting point for the evolution of constructional compositionality in animal communication and human language.
%K Compositionality, Bare compositionality, Constructional
compositionality, Evolution of compositionality, Grammatical items,
Configurational signs
%J International Journal of Primatology
%I Springer
%@ 1573-86040164-0291