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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 820–825

Interpretive semantics

Article outline
  • 1.Interpretive semantics as a research program
  • 2.Historical background
    • 2.1Semantics in generative grammar before interpretive semantics
    • 2.2Lexicalist hypothesis
  • 3.Interpretive semantics in the 1970s
  • 4.Interpretive semantics today
    • 4.1Government and binding theory
    • 4.2Conceptual semantics
    • 4.3Interpretive semantics and non-generative theories
  • 5.Interpretive semantics and pragmatics
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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