Language, Cognition, and Mind James A. Hampton Yoad Winter Editors Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology Language, Cognition, and Mind Volume 3 Series editor Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Editorial board members Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Peter Gaerdenfors, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Bart Geurts, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Noah D. Goodman, Stanford University, Stanford, USA Robert Ladd, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Dan Lassiter, Stanford University, Stanford, USA Edouard Machery, Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, USA This series takes the current thinking on topics in linguistics from the theoretical level to validation through empirical and experimental research. The volumes published offer insights on research that combines linguistic perspectives from recently emerging experimental semantics and pragmatics as well as experimental syntax, phonology, and cross-linguistic psycholinguistics with cognitive science perspectives on linguistics, psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence and neuroscience, and research into the mind, using all the various technical and critical methods available. The series also publishes cross-linguistic, cross-cultural studies that focus on finding variations and universals with cognitive validity. The peer reviewed edited volumes and monographs in this series inform the reader of the advances made through empirical and experimental research in the language-related cognitive science disciplines. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13376 James A. Hampton ⋅ Yoad Winter Editors Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology Editors James A. 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Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgements This volume grew out of a workshop on Concept Composition & Experimental Semantics/Pragmatics, which took place at Utrecht University in September 2013. That workshop and the work of the second editor were supported by a VICI grant 277-80-002 of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). For their help with the reviewing process of the articles in this volume, the editors wish to thank Alan Bale, Peter Bosch, Oliver Bott, Heather Burnett, Zachary Estes, Nat Hansen, Lotte Hogeweg, Martin Jönsson, Dan Lassiter, Gregory Murphy, Marijn Struiksma and David Vinson, as well as the authors of the volume. We are also grateful to participants in the 2013 workshop whose works are not represented here but contributed a lot to the success of the workshop: Patricia Amaral, Marisa Casillas, Stephen Crain, Martin Everaert, Bart Geurts, Lotte Hogeweg, Hans Kamp, and, especially the late Remko Scha, whose wisdom and collegiality have inspired the work on this volume since its start. Utrecht, The Netherlands February 2017 v Contents Introduction................................................. 1 James A. Hampton and Yoad Winter Cognitively Plausible Theories of Concept Composition ............. 9 Lawrence W. Barsalou Compositionality and Concepts—A Perspective from Formal Semantics and Philosophy of Language........................... 31 Francis Jeffry Pelletier Compositionality and Concepts ................................. 95 James A. Hampton Typicality Knowledge and the Interpretation of Adjectives ........... 123 Choonkyu Lee Concept Typicality and the Interpretation of Plural Predicate Conjunction ................................................. 139 Eva B. Poortman Critical Typicality: Truth Judgements and Compositionality with Plurals and Other Gradable Concepts ....................... 163 Yoad Winter Complement Coercion as the Processing of Aspectual Verbs: Evidence from Self-paced Reading and fMRI...................... 191 Yao-Ying Lai, Cheryl Lacadie, Todd Constable, Ashwini Deo and Maria Mercedes Piñango Conceptual Combination, Property Inclusion, and the Aristotelian-Thomistic View of Concepts ................... 223 Christina L. Gagné, Thomas L. Spalding and Matthew Kostelecky vii viii Contents Conceptual Versus Referential Affordance in Concept Composition ....................................... 245 Louise McNally and Gemma Boleda How Does the Left Anterior Temporal Lobe Contribute to Conceptual Combination? Interdisciplinary Perspectives .......... 269 Masha Westerlund and Liina Pylkkänen Dimension Accessibility as a Predictor of Morphological Gradability ................................................. 291 Galit W. Sassoon Author Index................................................ 327 Subject Index................................................ 333 Contributors Lawrence W. Barsalou Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Gemma Boleda Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Todd Constable Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center, New Haven, USA Ashwini Deo Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State, Coloumbus, USA Christina L. Gagné Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada James A. Hampton Department of Psychology, City, University of London, London, UK Matthew Kostelecky Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmon- ton, Canada Cheryl Lacadie Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center, New Haven, USA Yao-Ying Lai Department of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, USA Choonkyu Lee Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany Louise McNally Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Francis Jeffry Pelletier Philosophy Department, University of Alberta, Edmon- ton, AB, Canada Maria Mercedes Piñango Department of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, USA Eva B. Poortman Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands ix x Contributors Liina Pylkkänen Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, New York University, New York, USA; NYUAD Institute, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Galit W. Sassoon Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Thomas L. Spalding Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmon- ton, Canada Masha Westerlund Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, USA Yoad Winter Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Introduction James A. Hampton and Yoad Winter Abstract By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing the problem of concept composition, which is one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. An introductory chapter lays out the background to the problem. The subsequent chapters by leading scholars and younger researchers in psychology, linguistics and philosophy, aim to explain how meanings of different complex expressions are derived from simple lexical concepts, and to analyze how these meanings connect to concept representations. This work demonstrates an important advance in the interdisciplinary study of concept composition, where points of convergence between cognitive psychology, linguistics and philosophy emerge