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PRONUNCIATION OF GENERATIVE SEMANTICS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GENERATIVE SEMANTICS

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Generative semantics is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GENERATIVE SEMANTICS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Generative 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 was also instrumental in developing and advocating the theory. The approach developed out of 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 CFG formal grammar induced deep structure. A number of ideas from later work in generative semantics have been incorporated into cognitive linguistics, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, and into mainstream Chomskyan linguistics.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GENERATIVE SEMANTICS

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WORDS THAT END LIKE GENERATIVE SEMANTICS

antics
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Synonyms and antonyms of generative semantics in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «generative semantics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GENERATIVE SEMANTICS

Find out the translation of generative semantics to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of generative semantics from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «generative semantics» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

生成语义学
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

semántica generativa
570 millions of speakers

English

generative semantics
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उत्पादक अर्थ विज्ञान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دلالات توليدي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

генеративных семантика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

semântica gerativa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জেনারেটর সিমেন্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sémantique générative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Semantik generik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

generative Semantik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

生成意味論
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

생성 적 의미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Semantik generatif
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

ngữ nghĩa generative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொதுவான சொற்பொருள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उत्पादकक्षम अर्थशास्त्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Üretken semantik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

semantica generativa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

semantyki generatywnej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

генеративних семантика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

semantică generative
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

παραγωγική σημασιολογία
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

generatiewe semantiek
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

genera semantik
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

generative semantikk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of generative semantics

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GENERATIVE SEMANTICS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GENERATIVE SEMANTICS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about generative semantics

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GENERATIVE SEMANTICS»

Discover the use of generative semantics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to generative semantics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Word Meaning and Montague Grammar: The Semantics of Verbs ...
The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in linguistic semantics, primarily that of the generative semantics school, with the ...
D. R. Dowty, 1979
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Semantics; an Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, ...
On generative semantics" GEORGE LAKOFF i The basic theory I would like to discuss some questions having to do with the theory of grammar. I assume that a grammar of a language is a system of rules that relates sounds in the language to  ...
Danny D. Steinberg, Leon A. Jakobovits, 1971
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Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar
Generative semantics again permits richer devices. Every rule of interpretation mapping surface (or shallow) structure into some aspect of meaning can be described as a "derivational constraint" (i.e., a "rule of grammar"), but not conversely.
Noam Chomsky, 1980
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Cognitive Modeling and Verbal Semantics: A Representational ...
2.2.1. Generative Semantics Generative Semantics has been a highly-influential approach towards representing the meaning of lexical items in a structured way. The meaning of a verbal lexeme is displayed as a structured complex of primitive  ...
Andrea C. Schalley, 2004
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The Linguistics Wars
[It is] a simple reflection of the forms of thought” (Chomsky, 1966a:35) — as clear as articulation of generative semantics as ever there was. But there are large differences of scale between the four horsemen of the apocalypse — as Postal, ...
Randy Allen Harris, 1993
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Semantics:
The so-called generative semantics theory The terms 'interpretive semantics' and 'generative semantics', which have been widely employed to refer to the alternative conceptions of the relationship between semantics and syntax that are  ...
John Lyons, 1977
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Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics
Foreword (by Randy Harris) There is little that can or should be added to the definitive epitome of generative semantics you are about to read, by James D. McCawley (1938–1999), except (1) a few words about the importance of McCawley to ...
Keith Allan, 2010
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Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep ...
Lakoff were both teaching at the University of Michigan and McCawley was also in residence there as a visitor, Generative Semantics seemed to be on the verge of establishing a secure home in Ann Arbor. But by the fall of 1971 that possibility  ...
John A. Goldsmith, Geoffrey J. Huck, 2013
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Semantics
In contrast with Generative Semantics, however, Cognitive Linguistics is situated entirely outside the generative tradition. Leading figures within Cognitive Linguistics are George Lakoff, Ronald W. Langacker, Leonard Talmy, Charles Fillmore, ...
Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner, 2012
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Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic ...
It would appear then that within the abstract-deep-structure or generative semantics camp, the principle of meaning-preservingness of transformations is a fundamental condition on most of the grammar, but not necessarily on those ...
D.J. Hockney, William Harper, B. Freed, 1975

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GENERATIVE SEMANTICS»

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A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain
From this observation he constructed a theory called Generative Semantics, which was also disembodied, where logical structures were built ... «Scientific American, Nov 11»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Generative semantics [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/generative-semantics>. May 2024 ».
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