Frame semantics is a sub-theory of semantics that establishes a direct link between meaning in a linguistic sense and the speaker’s knowledge of the world. This theory has been elaborated in the context of case grammar by Charles J. Fillmore. Central is the idea that the knowledge of the world takes the form of psychic …
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 …