koostalitlusliku
Koostalitlusliku is an Estonian adjective meaning compositional, used in linguistics, logic, and philosophy of language to describe theories, analyses, or principles that rely on the idea that a complex expression’s meaning is determined by the meanings of its parts and the way those parts are combined.
In grammatical and scholarly usage, koos talitusliku (the form koos talitusliku in genitive) functions as the
The term is commonly encountered in discussions of compositionality, a central concept in formal semantics and
Critiques of compositional approaches often address phenomena such as idioms, context-sensitivity, and pragmatic inference, which can