Linguistics 490, Vicissitudes of War 2
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Aspects vs. Generative Semantics
•a Larry and Tom love their respective wives.
•b Those men love Susan and Dot respectively.
•c That man loves Susan and Dot.
• Aspects: these sentences need at least 3 levels of representation – surface structures, deep structures, and semantic representations.
• Generative Semantics: 2 levels of representation – a semantic interpretation rule and a transformation.