'''Generative semantics''' is the name ofwas a research program withinin [[theoretical linguistics]],initiatedwhich byheld that [[syntax|syntactic structures]] are computed on the workbasis of various[[meaning early(linguistics|meaning]]s studentsrather than the other way around. Generative semantics developed out of [[Noamtransformational-generative grammar|transformational generative Chomskygrammar]]: in the mid-1960s, but stood opposition to it. The period in which the two research programs coexisted was marked by intense and often personal clashes now known as the [[linguistics wars]]. Its proponents included [[John R. Ross|Haj Ross]], [[Paul Postal]], and later [[James McCawley]]., and [[George Lakoff]], andwho [[Pieterdubbed Seuren]]themselves were"The alsoFour instrumentalHorsemen in developing and advocatingof the theoryApocalypse".{{ref|1}}
AGenerative numbersemantics ofis ideasno fromlonger laterpracticed workunder inthat generativename, semanticsthough many of its central ideas have beenblossomed incorporatedin intothe [[cognitive linguistics]], tradition. It is also regarded as a key part of the intellectual heritage of [[head-driven phrase structure grammar]] (HPSG), and [[construction grammar]], and intosome of its insights live on in mainstream generative linguisticsgrammar. [[Pieter Seuren]] has developed a ''semantic syntax'' which is very close in spirit to the original generative semantics framework, which he played a role in developing.<ref>{{cite book|author=Newmeyer, Frederick, J.|title=Linguistic Theory in America|year=1986|publisher=Academic Press|edition=Second}} See p. 138.</ref>▼
The approach developed out of [[transformational-generative grammar|transformational generative grammar]] in the mid-1960s, but stood largely apart from, and in opposition to, work by [[Noam Chomsky]] and his later students. This move led to a more abstract framework and lately to the abandonment of the notion of the [[context free language|CFG]] [[formal grammar]] induced [[deep structure]].
▲A number of ideas from later work in generative semantics have been incorporated into [[cognitive linguistics]], [[head-driven phrase structure grammar]] (HPSG), [[construction grammar]], and into mainstream generative linguistics.<ref>{{cite book|author=Newmeyer, Frederick, J.|title=Linguistic Theory in America|year=1986|publisher=Academic Press|edition=Second}} See p. 138.</ref>
==Interpretive semantics and generative semantics==
