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SEMANTICS, GENERATIVE GRAMMARS, AND COMPUTERS. A FEW COMMENTS ON CURRENT TRENDS IN SEMANTICS

SEMANTICS, GENERATIVE GRAMMARS, AND COMPUTERS. A FEW COMMENTS ON CURRENT TRENDS IN SEMANTICS SEMANTICS, GENERATIVE GRAMMARS, AND COMPUTERS A FEW COMMENTS ON CURRENT TRENDS IN SEMANTICS R. TABORY Various applications in the field of language data processing (mechanical translation, information retrieval, etc.) have shown the importance of linguistic research, and particularly of the research done by the present school of mathematical linguistics, centered around the Department of Modern Languages of MJ.T. Semantics is the domain of linguistics, especially of formalized linguistics, that is the most difficult to investigate and is the most troublesome to penetrate by computer usage. This paper intends to comment on present trends in semantics, the permanent background point of view being language data processing by computers.1 Is semantics the counterpart of syntax, dividing up linguistics into two roughly equal parts, is it pure speculation about meaning, or is it a covername for everything that has been so far "left out" of systematic linguistic description, as Chomsky once put it? We follow Chomsky and we shall see that a great number of semantic studies can be performed without referring to extra-linguistic context, i.e., to language usage. These semantic studies still belong to the realm of generative grammars (in the sense of recursive enumeration of the sentence membership of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-3949
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10.1515/ling.1965.3.16.68
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SEMANTICS, GENERATIVE GRAMMARS, AND COMPUTERS A FEW COMMENTS ON CURRENT TRENDS IN SEMANTICS R. TABORY Various applications in the field of language data processing (mechanical translation, information retrieval, etc.) have shown the importance of linguistic research, and particularly of the research done by the present school of mathematical linguistics, centered around the Department of Modern Languages of MJ.T. Semantics is the domain of linguistics, especially of formalized linguistics, that is the most difficult to investigate and is the most troublesome to penetrate by computer usage. This paper intends to comment on present trends in semantics, the permanent background point of view being language data processing by computers.1 Is semantics the counterpart of syntax, dividing up linguistics into two roughly equal parts, is it pure speculation about meaning, or is it a covername for everything that has been so far "left out" of systematic linguistic description, as Chomsky once put it? We follow Chomsky and we shall see that a great number of semantic studies can be performed without referring to extra-linguistic context, i.e., to language usage. These semantic studies still belong to the realm of generative grammars (in the sense of recursive enumeration of the sentence membership of

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Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1965

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