Katz-Postal-principle
SEMANTICS: the principle, argued for in Katz & Postal (1964), that all
semantic interpretation applies to °deep
structure, before the application of transformations. As a result all
transformations are meaning preserving. This principle was the source of a deep
controversy in generative grammar between
°generative semantics and
°interpretative semantics.
LIT.
Katz & Postal (1964),
Newmeyer (1980).