ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises the landmarks in the gradual inclusion of semantics into Transformational Generative Grammar as a background against which to view the interaction between meaning and grammaticality prediction in definite and indefinite noun phrases. This book discusses the ungrammaticalities to believe, suggest data for the construction of an overall theory of the role of semantics in grammaticality prediction. The title 'Semantic Syntax' is used in semantic representations and surface structures work in preference to 'Generative Semantics', as it is also in Seuren. The name 'Generative Semantics' suggests, rather misleadingly, that the grammar is actually generating a semantics by which logicians, at least, understand both a semantic representation and a fully-fledged logical semantic interpretation along the lines of Keenan's semantically based grammar. Semantic input arguments involved showing that where the semantic representation of Chomsky's interpretive semantic component differed from his syntactic deep structure, only the properties of the semantic representation would make the correct grammaticality predictions.
