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Derivations are at least partially compositional, whereby Level 1 derivations
tend to be less semantically transparent than Level 2 derivations.
- Variables: A, B, C,
where A ranges over stems (simple or complex),
B ranges over affixes,
C ranges over complex stems.
- Constants: a, b, c,
where a, b, c are signs.
- Model variables: P, O, S are models in terms of which signs are interpreted phonologically, orthographically, semanticslly,
where P is a phonetic structure, O is an orthographic structure,
and S is a semantic structure.
- Composition and interpretation:
- Grammatical composition,
- Phonological interpretation,
- Orthographic interpretation,
- Semantic interpretation,
- All three kinds of interpretation are compositional, i.e. some
property of the whole complex unit is a function of the same property
holding for the parts of the complex unit:
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Dafydd Gibbon
Wed Jun 19 23:14:45 MET DST 1996