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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]] wasand [[Pieter Seuren]] were 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 the [[context free language|CFG]] [[formal grammar]] induced [[deep structure]].

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* Ross, John R. [Háj]. (1970). On declarative sentences. In R. A. Jacobs & P. S. Rosenbaum (Eds.), ''Readings in English transformational grammar'' (pp. 222–272). Washington: Georgetown University Press.

* Ross, John R. [Háj]. (1972). Doubl-ing. In J. Kimball (Ed.), ''Syntax and semantics'' (Vol. 1, pp. 157–186). New York: Seminar Press.

* [[Pieter A. M. Seuren|Seuren, Pieter A. M.]] (1974). ''Semantic syntax''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-875028-5.

[[Category:Generative linguistics]]