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{{distinguish|General semantics}}

'''Generative semantics''' is the name of a research program within [[linguistics]], initiated by the work of various early students of [[Noam Chomsky]]: [[John R. Ross]], [[Paul Postal]], and later [[James McCawley]]. [[George Lakoff]] was also instrumental in developing and advocating the theory.{{ref|1}}

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 [[deep structure]].