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{{Short description|Research program in theoretical linguistics}}

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{{distinguish|text = [[formal semantics (natural language)|semantics]] as practiced within the framework of [[generative grammar]]}}

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'''Generative semantics''' was a research program in [[theoretical linguistics]] which held that [[syntax|syntactic structures]] are computed on the basis of [[meaning (linguistics)|meaning]]s rather than the other way around. Generative semantics developed out of [[transformational-generative grammar|transformational generative grammar]] in the mid-1960s, but stood in 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]], [[James McCawley]], and [[George Lakoff]], who dubbed themselves "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".

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* [[Jerry A. Fodor|Fodor, Jerry A.]]; & [[Jerrold J. Katz|Katz, Jerrold J.]] (Eds.). (1964). ''The structure of language''. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

* [[Randy Allen Harris|Harris, Randy Allen]]. (1995). ''The linguistics wars''. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-509834-X}}.

* [[Geoffrey J. Huck|Huck, Geoffrey J.]]; & [[John Goldsmith (linguist)|Goldsmith, John A.]]. (1995). ''Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the deep structure debates''. New York: Routledge.

* [[Jerrold J. Katz|Katz, Jerrold J.]]; & Fodor, Jerry A. (1964). The structure of a semantic theory. In J. A. Fodor & J. J. Katz (Eds.) (pp. 479–518).

* Katz, Jerrold J.; & Postal, Paul M. (1964). ''An integrated theory of linguistic descriptions''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.