Editing Lexical semantics (section)

=== Generative semantics in the 1960s ===
The analysis of these different lexical units had a decisive role in the field of "[[generative linguistics]]" during the 1960s.<ref name="WILEY Blackwell">{{cite book|last1=Sportiche|first1=Dominique|last2=Koopman|first2=Hilda|last3=Stabler|first3=Edward|title=An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory|date=2014|publisher=WILEY Blackwell}}</ref> The term ''generative'' was proposed by Noam Chomsky in his book [[Syntactic Structures]] published in 1957. The term ''generative linguistics'' was based on Chomsky's [[generative grammar]], a linguistic theory that states systematic sets of rules ([[X' theory]])  can predict grammatical phrases within a natural language.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chomsky|first1=Noam|title=Syntactic Structures|date=1957|publisher=Mouton de Gruyter}}</ref> Generative Linguistics is also known as Government-Binding Theory.
Generative linguists of the 1960s, including [[Noam Chomsky]] and [[Ernst von Glasersfeld]], believed semantic relations between [[transitive verbs]] and [[intransitive verbs]] were tied to their independent syntactic organization.<ref name="WILEY Blackwell"/> This meant that they saw a simple verb phrase as encompassing a more complex syntactic structure.<ref name="WILEY Blackwell"/>