The effect of context on the proc Roberto G.

s suc is spe erce’’ irical wev tion isolation (Experiment 1) or with sentences embedded in contexts that specified the nature of the activity performed over the function of the meaning of its constituent parts. In (1), This form of classical Fregean compositionality—in particular nominal phrase complements (henceforth NPs)—to be of a certain semantic type (quantifier, en-tity, proposition or activity, etc.). When the NP does not conform to the verbs requirements, the NPs semantic type is coerced to change (or ‘‘type-shift’’) from one type to another (say, from an entity to an event). Through analysis. I am grateful to Brendan Gillon, Sally Cooper, and an anonymous reviewer for detailed comments on an earlier version of the manuscript, and to Jorge Campos, Jerry Fodor, and Brendan Gillon for helpful discussions. I am also grateful to Ioana Constantinescu