Linguistics & Language · Semantics & Pragmatics
A topic within Semantics & Pragmatics, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
2 works
Richard Montague
Argues that English can be given a systematic, compositional semantics as rigorous as a formal logical language, by treating meaning as a function built up in step with syntax.
Elizabeth Coppock & Lucas Champollion
Works through how a sentence's truth-conditional meaning is built compositionally from the meanings of its parts using set theory and function application, a current, freely available successor to the Heim & Kratzer compositional-semantics program.