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We introduce several senses of the principle ofcompositionality. We illustrate the difference between them with thehelp of some recent results obtained by Cameron and Hodges oncompositional semantics for languages of imperfect information.
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Sandu, G., Hintikka, J. Aspects of Compositionality. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 10, 49–61 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026530709583
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