GENERATIVE SEMANTICS


Meaning of GENERATIVE SEMANTICS in English

Pronunciation: usu ' je-n ə -r ə -tiv-

Function: noun plural but usually singular in construction

Date: 1970

: 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

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary.      Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка.