In:Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 820–825
Interpretive semantics
Published online: 3 October 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.int5
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.int5
Article outline
- 1.Interpretive semantics as a research program
- 2.Historical background
- 2.1Semantics in generative grammar before interpretive semantics
- 2.2Lexicalist hypothesis
- 3.Interpretive semantics in the 1970s
- 4.Interpretive semantics today
- 4.1Government and binding theory
- 4.2Conceptual semantics
- 4.3Interpretive semantics and non-generative theories
- 5.Interpretive semantics and pragmatics
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