Generative semantics was a research program in theoretical linguistics which held that syntactic structures are computed on the basis of meanings rather...
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in non-generative approaches such as usage-based models of language. Generative linguistics includes work in core areas such as syntax, semantics, phonology...
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Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings. It includes the study of how words...
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Transformational grammar (redirect from Transformational-Generative Grammar)
transformational-generative grammar (TGG) was the earliest model of grammar proposed within the research tradition of generative grammar. Like current generative theories...
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Linguistics wars (category Generative linguistics)
led to two competing frameworks in generative semantics and interpretive semantics. Eventually, generative semantics spawned a different linguistic paradigm...
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sentences Generative lexicon, a theory of semantics which focuses on the distributed nature of compositionality in natural language Generative metrics,...
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Syntax (section Generative syntax)
variation, and the relationship between form and meaning (semantics). Diverse approaches, such as generative grammar and functional grammar, offer unique perspectives...
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wars"—a debate between proponents of generative semantics and interpretive semantics about whether syntax and semantics are deeply integrated or independent...
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M. (2013) The syntax–semantics interface. Lingua, 130, 66–87. Heim, Irene; Kratzer, Angelika (1998). Semantics in Generative Grammar. Oxford: Wiley...
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largest and most capable LLMs are generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), which are largely used in generative chatbots such as ChatGPT or Gemini...
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Iranian languages Katz, Jerrold J. (United States, 1932—2002), semantics, generative grammar Kaufman, Terrence (United States, 1937—2022), historical...
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however, he joined with others to promote generative semantics as an alternative to Chomsky's generative syntax. In an interview he stated: During that...
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David. 1979. Word meaning and Montague grammar. The semantics of verbs and times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's PTQ: Synthese Language Library...
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linguist. He played a part in the development of generative semantics (as opposed to interpretive semantics) along with George Lakoff, James D. McCawley,...
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Fluid Construction Grammar Word grammar Generative grammar: Transformational grammar (1960s) Generative semantics (1970s) and Semantic Syntax (1990s) Phrase...
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Componential analysis (category Semantics)
one hand, componential analysis gave birth to various models in generative semantics, lexical field theory and transformational grammar. On the other...
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musical cognition, culminating in their generative theory of tonal music. His theory of conceptual semantics developed into a comprehensive theory on...
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Cognitive semantics is part of the cognitive linguistics movement. Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. Cognitive semantics holds that language...
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Deep structure and surface structure (category Generative syntax)
second, and finally to the third. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the generative semantics movement put up a vigorous defence of the first option, sparking...
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these approaches were incorporated into generative linguistics. Other prominent developer of structural semantics have been Louis Hjelmslev, Émile Benveniste...
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(linguistics) Type shifter Heim, Irene; Kratzer, Angelika (1998). Semantics in Generative Grammar. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 194–198. Ruys, Eddy; Winter...
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a computational operationalization of generative grammar), morphology (e.g., two-level morphology), semantics (e.g., Lesk algorithm), reference (e.g...
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itself. Just as generative syntax posits a finite set of syntactic categories and rules for combining them, so, too, does Conceptual Semantics posit 'a finite...
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Standard Theory, a new approach called the generative semantics (as opposed to the interpretive semantics in Aspects) was invented in the early 1970s...
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Generative lexicon (GL) is a theory of linguistic semantics which focuses on the distributed nature of compositionality in natural language. The first...
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Principle of compositionality (redirect from Compositional semantics)
Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2017) (pp. 168-177). James Pustejovsky. 1995. The Generative Lexicon. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA...
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Brame, M. K. (1976). "Jackendoff on interpretive semantics-Review of Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar by Jackendoff, R.". Linguistic Analysis...
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James Pustejovsky (category Generative linguistics)
Massachusetts, Amherst. Pustejovsky first proposed generative lexicon theory in lexical semantics in an article published in 1991, which was further developed...
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Thematic relation (category Semantics)
David (1979). Word meaning and Montague grammar. The semantics of verbs and times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's PTQ (First ed.). Dordrecht: D....
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Adele Goldberg, however, make an argument against generative grammar and truth-conditional semantics. As is elementary for Lakoffian–Langackerian Cognitive...
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