Generative semantics

James D. McCawley
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The term ‘generative semantics’ (GS) is an informal designation for the school of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic research that was prominent from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s and whose best-known practitioners were George Lakoff, James D. McCawley, Paul M. Postal, and John Robert Ross.

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