Interpretive rules
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Interpretive rules is a rules that interpret syntactic structures in terms of a semantic representation or in terms of truth and reference. In a strictly compositional semantics (e.g. Montague Grammar), there will be a interpretive rule for every syntactic rule.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Chomsky, N. 1972. Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar, Mouton, The Hague.
- Jackendoff, R. 1972. Semantic interpretation in generative grammar, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
- Newmeyer, F.J. 1980. Linguistic Theory in in America, Academic Press:New York etc.
