generative semantics
generative semantics
noun pl but usually singular in constr \usually ˈje-nə-rə-tiv-\Definition of GENERATIVE SEMANTICS
: a description of a language emphasizing a semantic deep structure that is logical in form, that provides syntactic structure, and that is related to surface structure by transformations
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1970
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