Interpretive rules

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.