Hanna Neumann in
[American Journal of Mathematics, 1948,
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2372201?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102497379451 ]
introduced a notion of generalized free product of groups $G_i$ with amalgamated subgroups $H_{ij}< G_i$. Did anybody consider this construction for semigroups? Thank you in advance.
This question arose while studying partial actions of groups on semigroups.