To understand complex objects, humans are known to mentally transform them and represent them as a combination of simpler elements. This ability, known as compositionality, was so far assumed to ...

In the context of debates about what form a theory of meaning should take, it is sometimes claimed that one cannot understand an intersective modifier-head construction (e.g., 'pet fish') without ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Compositionality, or the ability to build complex cognitive structures from simple parts, is fundamental to the power of the human mind. Here ...