unsigned comment by it's not clear what you mean who uses this term for what purpose can you provide some citations for where this usage occurs your use of the terms interpretive and generative are confusing in this context because they are already used in the article to mean something quite different from what you apparently mean this article explicitly states that generative semantics is generative not interpretative exactly the opposite of what you're saying can you restate your position using different non jargon terminology also your formatting of the talk page was broken you should spend some time learning proper wikipedia markup before you start editing pages finally please sign your talk page comments with four tildes