“In the history of formal semantics, the period from the late 1960s into the early 1980s was marked by intensive collaboration among linguists and philosophers … starting in the 1980s, formal semantics became more and more a subdiscipline of linguistics,” Partee (2018: 185) states, summarizing changes of the place assigned to semantics in the research area covered by linguistics and philosophy. Recent developments of the minimalist program (Chomsky, 1995b and subsequent work), putting emphasis on explanatory depth with regard to evolutionary and developmental issues, present semantics with significant challenges on the way to its proper integration as “a subdiscipline of linguistics,” the latter understood along the lines of the biolinguistic strand of research.