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Generative semantics

Within generative grammar, generative semantics is a variation on transformation grammar developed in the mid-1960s by some of Chomsky’s pupils at the time: John R. Ross, Paul Postal, James McCawley and George Lakoff. Description As in Noam Chomsky’s grammar, a deep syntactic structure was assumed, but the idea was added that these deep structures also …