SEMANTIC SYNTAX at work
Pieter A. M. Seuren, Henk P. Schotel · 1994
SEMANTIC SYNTAX (SeSyn) is a direct continuation of work done in the '60s and '70s under the name of GENERATIVE SEMANTICS.The main component of SeSyn is a rule system (the syntax) which transforms the Semantic Analysis (SA) of any given sentence into a Surface Structure (SS) of that sentence.The SAs represent meanings in a higher order Predicate Calculus, according to a small set of context-free Formation Rules and a Lexicon.SA-trees have simple branchings and deep S-embeddings.They are input to the Transformation Rules, which deliver a corresponding SS.The Transformation Rules fall into two classes, the rules of the Cycle, and those of the Postcycle.The cyclic rules start