| Montague suggested a perspicuous way to capture the principle of compositionality formally. |
| That compositionality is the key notion for the analysis of idioms is emphasized in most accounts of idioms. |
| This trait of phrasal verbs is also what makes them interesting for linguists, since they appear to defy the principle of compositionality. |
| The main burden of this chapter is to argue against strict compositionality and for partial compositionality. |
| It's hard for me to believe that any creature could develop anything much like human language without at least some limited form of recursive compositionality. |
| Other exceptions to compositionality are idioms, figures of speech, and expressions which are subject to pragmatic interpretations. |
