JOHN T. E.
CONTEMPORARY SEMANTIC THEORIES•
This paper is a of some of the corxcpts current in linguistic
psychological Studies Of semantics. It Will concern in particular the
work of Katz and hig (Katz, 1967; Katz and Fedor,
1963: Katz and Postal, 1964), and also that of Qudlian (1967, 1968.
1969) and the Studies Of language by Simmons,
Burger, and Schwarcz (1968),
The most candidate a theory is that Of Katz
and (1963), was proposed as a Ccmterpart to Chomskyan
syntactic theory to comprise a complete linguistic theory (Katz and Postal
19"). Starting from the alleged 'basic fact • that "a fluent speaker Can
determine nEaning of a in tem of of its
constituent lexical items", Katz and Fodor propo*d that a
must contain two dictionary Of the items
of the and a Of rules (which Shall Cull projection rules)
which or*rates on full grammatical descriptions of and on
dictionary entries to semantic interpretations for every
Of the language" (1963; cf. Katz and postal, 1964). Similar reasoning is
to be found in Simmons, Burger, and Schwarcz (1968). Here my principal
concern Will With the StrWture and Content Of the dictionary
These consist of parts : "a which the
part-of-speech for a lexical item, a semantic
which reprewnts each of the distinct senses the lexical item has in its
as a given part Of speech" (Katz and Fodcw, 1963 ; Cf. Katz
and postal, 1964; Simmons The elements constituting
the former are termed GRAMMATICAL MARKERS. The latter is constituted
by a "t of e knxnts SEMANnC MARKERS
Which represent the result of a dnomposition of the meaning of
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