On the interaction of meanings in natural languages: Compositional rules, context dependence and coercion

Abstract

We intend to concentrate on processes of interaction of lexical meanings within text and context. Based on the notion of semantic coercion, we propose to consider different types of semantic interaction of lexical meanings as a value of the compositional and/or decompositional functions from text, context, and prototypical meanings of the given expression. Some formal rules for its description are suggested.