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Publication details [#10104]
Wilks, Yorick. 1975. Preference semantics. In Keenan, Edward Louis, ed. Formal semantics of natural language: Papers from a colloquium sponsored by the King's College Research Centre, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. pp. 329–348. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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Article in book
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English
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Instead of adopting the derivational paradigm of transformational grammar and generative semantics, which tries to determine the well-formedness of sentences, W. proposes a 'preference semantics', i.e. a set of formal procedures for representing the meaning structure of natural language with a view to embodying that structure within a system that can be said to understand.