Kornai A. Vector Semantics 2023

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Foundations of non-compositionality
Background
Lexicographic principles
The syntax of definitions
The geometry of definitions
The algebra of definitions
Parallel description
From morphology to syntax
Lexical categories and subcategories
Bound morphemes
Relations
Linking
Naive grammar
Time and space
Space
Time
Indexicals, coercion
Measure
Negation
Background
Negation in the lexicon
Negation in compositional constructions
Double negation
Quantifiers
Disjunction
Valuations and learnability
The likeliness scale
Naive inference (likeliness update)
Learning
Modality
Tense and aspect
The deontic world
Knowledge, belief, emotions
Defaults
Adjectives, gradience, implicature
Adjectives
Gradience
Implicature
Spreading activation
Trainability and real-world knowledge
Proper names
Trainability
Dynamic embeddings
Applications
Fitting to the law
Pragmatic inferencing
Representation building
Explainability
External index
Appendix: 4lang