1 Introduction : Direct Compositionality CHRIS BARKER AND PAULINE JACOBSON

The papers collected in this volume grew out of a workshop “Direct Compositionality: A Workshop” sponsored by NSF Grant BCS-0236462 and held in June 2003 at Brown University. In addition to the eleven papers published here, the workshop featured three additional papers: by Daniel Büring, Alexis Dimitriadis, and Danny Fox. Moreover, all of the contributors here plus the three mentioned above served as discussants for one of the other workshop papers. The quality of the discussant comments, the contribution of this aspect of the conference to the workshop, and the influence of the discussant comments on the final papers was quite extraordinary, and thus we would like to acknowledge the contributions of all of the conference participants. Space unfortunately precluded the inclusion of the specific discussant comments, but each paper has been revised in light of these comments. We would therefore like to thank everyone who attended the workshop, as well as NSF for their support.