Direct Compositionality, edited by Chris Barker and Pauline
Jacobson, is now available. Here is the
page at
Oxford University Press, and here is the page at
Amazon.
And here is
the introductory chapter, including a general discussion of
direct compositionality and descriptions of the contributions.
1. Barker & Jacobson Introduction: Direct Compositionality
Part I: Some Programmatic Issues
2. Dowty Compositionality as an Empirical Problem
3. Barker Direct Compositionality on Demand
4. Shan Linguistic Side Effects
5. Winter Type Shifting with Semantic Features: a Unified Perspective
Part II: Case Studies
6. Jacobson Direct Compositionality and Variable Free Semantics: the Case of "Principle B" Effects
7. Caponigro & Heller The Non Concealed Nature of Free Relatives: Implications for Connectivity in Specificational Sentences
8. Romero Connectivity in a Unified Analysis of Specificational Subjects and Concealed Questions
9. Bhatt & Pancheva Degree Quantifiers, Position of Merger Effects with their Restrictors, and Conservativity
10. Sharvit Two Reconstruction Puzzles
Part III: New Horizons
11. Bittner Online Update: Temporal, Modal, and de se Anaphora in Polysynthetic Discourse
12. Potts The Dimensions of Quotation