James C. Phillips, a scholar at Stanford law school’s Constitutional Law Center (and author of several National Review essays), has kindly forwarded to me an interesting new paper of his, “The ...

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 ...

The present paper* studies the general implications of the principle of compositionality for the organization of grammar. It will be argued that Janssen's (1986) requirement that syntax and semantics ...