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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 657–666

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Generative semantics

Published online: 3 October 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.gen2
Article outline
  • 1.The history of generative semantics
  • 2.Tenets of GS
    • 2.1Against deep structure
    • 2.2Derivational constraints
    • 2.3Context and acceptability
    • 2.4Pragmatics integrated in semantics
    • 2.5The status of logic
    • 2.6‘Transformations’
    • 2.7The ‘base’
  • 3.Pragmatics in GS
  • References
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