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generative semantics A theory of grammar developed as an alternative to the standard transformational-generative model. Despite its name, it is not a theory of semantics, but a grammatical model in which semantics have a generative role. 1991 J. LYONS The term ‘generative semantics’ ...
January 1, 1998; The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar

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