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    It is not the case that Blocking this inference requires denying that superlative predication entails base predication, which collapses ordinary semantic compositionality.

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    • 1.Semantic compositionality concerns how complex meanings are built; it doesn't require every entailment relation hold between morphological variants.
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    • 2.Superlatives can be semantically compositional (built from relational and quantificational structure) without 'tallest' entailing the base 'tall'.
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    • 3.Context-dependent or nonmonotonic semantics allows compositionality to survive failures of classical entailment relations.
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    • 1.Semantic compositionality requires that superlatives like 'tallest' systematically derive from base predicates like 'tall'.
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    • 2.If 'X is the tallest' doesn't entail 'X is tall,' then the superlative meaning becomes semantically opaque and independent.
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    • 3.Language learning and use depend on productive rules connecting morphologically related terms; blocking this entailment breaks that system.
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