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generative semantics

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generative semantics
n
(Linguistics) (functioning as singular) a school of semantic theory based on the doctrine that syntactic and semantic structure are of the same formal nature and that there is a single system of rules that relates surface structure to meaning Compare interpretive semantics


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In the late 1970s and 1980s, the field of SLP became increasingly influenced by models of generative grammar and generative semantics (e.
In his 1968 article "Idiomaticity as an anomaly in the Chomskyan paradigm", Chafe's stand is still transformational, but he proposes that semantics be the starting point of sentence derivation, taking over the place of syntax and operating jointly with it (in this way he can be regarded as a potential ally of the movement of Generative Semantics developed by George Lakoff and James D.
 
 
 
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