ABSTRACT
Clearly the essence of the approach is the "assimilation" of sentences to extralinguistic structures. This chapter explains how the approach came to such prominence in the field of interest. It discusses its consistency with observational adequacy in a reasonable time-scale. Semantic assimilation is the scrutiny of lexical items categorised by assimilation in our sense to see what meaning features they share with equivalently positioned items not so categorised. The action-word category includes adjectives and nouns, and hence the logical conclusion of semantic assimilation would once more be the fusion of verbs, adjectives, and nouns. Using a complex set of procedures, which essentially accommodates the putative meanings to the sentences' properties, the processes create structures where lexical items are mapped onto meaning elements. Both ALAS and LAS take their input bracketings as a whole and call up others that, regardless of elements, are equivalent in shape.
