Editing Principle of compositionality (section)

== History ==
Discussion of compositionality started to appear at the beginning of the 19th century, during which it was debated whether what was most fundamental in language was compositionality or [[context (language use)|contextuality]], and compositionality was usually preferred.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Janssen |first=Theo |date=2012 |title=Compositionality: Its Historic Context |url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/41264/chapter/350861043 |journal=Oxford Handbook of Compositionality |pages=19–46 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199541072.013.0001|url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[Gottlob Frege]] never adhered to the principle of compositionality as it is known today (Frege endorsed the [[context principle]] instead), and the first to explicitly formulate it was [[Rudolf Carnap]] in 1947.<ref name=":0" />