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This report is a record of issues in the semantics of natural languages that have concerned me in the past few years, some of the things I have had to say about them, and some of the things that others have had to say about them. There is nothing new in these pages, and there is much that is borrowed. I use numbered paragraphs mostly to create favorable associations — but also to make it obvious that I do not expect the reader to perceive here any structure beyond that of sheer sequence.
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See Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1965, Chapter 2.
See, e.g., James D. McCawley, ‘Lexical Insertion in a Transformational Grammar Without Deep Structure’ in Papers from the Fourth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (ed. by C.-J. Bailey, B. J. Darden, and A. Davison), Chicago, Ill., 1969, pp. 71–80.
For examples of this approach see Barbara Hall, Subject and Object in English, M.I.T doctoral dissertation, 1965,
and P. Gregory Lee, ‘Subjects and Agents’, Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics 3 (1969) 36–113.
See, e.g., my ‘The Case for Case’ in Universals in Linguistic Theory (ed. by E. Bach and R. Harms), Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York 1968, pp. 1–88, and ‘Lexical Entries for Verbs’, Foundations of Language 4 (1968) 373–393.
Paul M. Postal, ‘Cross-Over Phenomena’ in Specification and Utilization of a Transformational Grammar (Scientific Report No. 3), IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1968.
See George Lakoff, ‘Instrumental Adverbs and the Concept of Deep Structure’, Foundations of Language 4 (1968) 4–29.
For further discussion of the matters taken up in Sections 19–36, see my ‘Types of Lexical Information’, Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics 2 (1968) 65–103 (to appear in Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, Anthropology and Psychology (ed. by Leon Jakobovits and Danny Steinberg), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970.
George Lakoff and Stanley Peters, ‘Phrasal Conjunction and Symmetric Predicates’ in Modern Studies in English (ed. by David Reibel and Sanford Schane), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1969, pp. 113–142.
Quang Phuc Dong, ‘A Note on Conjoined Noun Phrases’, PEGS (1968), unpublished.
George Lakoff, ‘On Derivational Constraints’ in Papers from the Fifth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, III., 1969, pp. 117–139.
For a somewhat more detailed discussion, see my ‘Verbs of Judging: An Exercise in Semantic Description’, Papers in Linguistics 1 (1969) 91–117 (Florida State University).
John R. Searle, Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969.
See my ‘Deictic Categories in the Semantics of “Come”’, Foundations of Language 2 (1966) 219–226.
For a persuasive statement of this analysis, see John R. Ross, ‘On Declarative Sentences’ in Readings in English Transformational Grammar (ed. by Roderick Jacobs and Peter S. Rosenbaum), Blaisdell, Boston, 1970.
See, for a survey of the literature on and the arguments for generative semantics, George Lakoff’s ‘Generative Semantics’ in Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, Anthropology and Psychology (ed. by Danny Steinberg and Leon Jakobovits), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1971.
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Fillmore, C.J. (1972). Subjects, Speakers, and Roles. In: Davidson, D., Harman, G. (eds) Semantics of Natural Language. Synthese Library, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2557-7_1
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