Surf these sites: A Talk with George Lakoff -- Interview by John Brockman at The Edge. Lakoff is one of the founders of generative semantics. Constraints and The Linguistic Wars -- Discussion piece posted by Pauline Jacobson to the Liguist list, concerning whether the project of generative semantics constrained generative transformations. Interview with James Pustejovsky -- By the Dutch student magazine `Ta!'' for computational linguistics. The interview is principally concenred with Pestejovsk''s theory of the Generative Lexicon, a theory with some close relationships to Generative Semantics. Semantic Syntax -- Selected extracts of a book by Pieter Seuren on the transformation of theories of semantics into theories of syntax. Relevant to computational linguistics and the debate on Generative Semantics. The Linguistics Wars -- Review by John Lawler of Randy Harris'' book. The book is a history of the war between the generative semanticists and the interpretative semanticists.
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