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Lexical semantics and compositionality

1995, An invitation to cognitive science: Language

Semantics is an inherently interdisciplinary subject, and one which benefits from the intrinsically interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science." Semantics" has meant different things in different disciplines: That situation is not just accidental but neither does it necessarily reflect" turf battles" or disagreements; mainly, it reflects the many different ways that different disciplines are concerned with meaning. And, even within a single discipline," semantics" often means different things within different schools of thought. There it often ...

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