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For the past half century, linguistic semantics was dominated by issues of compositionality to such an extent that the meaning of the atomic units (which were generally assumed to be words or their stems) received scant attention. Here we will put word meaning front and center, and base the entire plan of the book on beginning with the lowest meaningful units, morphemes, and building upward.
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Kornai, A. (2023). Foundations of non-compositionality. In: Vector Semantics. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5607-2_1
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