Stockholm University

Starting from the familiar observation that no straightforward treat-ment of pure quotation can be compositional in the standard (homomor-phism) sense, we introduce general compositionality, which can be de-scribed as compositionality that takes linguistic context into account. A formal notion of linguistic context type is developed, allowing the context type of a complex expression to be distinct from those of its constituents. We formulate natural conditions under which an ordinary meaning as-signment can be non-trivially extended to one that is sensitive to context types and satisfies general compositionality. As our main example we work out a Fregean treatment of pure quotation, but we also indicate that the method applies to other kinds of context, e.g. intensional contexts. ∗Thanks to two referees, to Ken Shan who let us see his [36] and thereby put his re-marks on compositionality and quotation into the context of the present paper, and to Chris Potts for expert editing. We also wish to thank Philippe de Brabanter, Herb Clark, Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, and Francois Recanati for stimulating discussions. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Communitys Seventh Framework Programm