The grammar of conversation: How much of it is syntax?

This paper examines the interaction between conversational pragmatics and syntax with a view to identifying to what extent pragmatic interpretation can be read off syntactic structure. Building on empirical data from Romanian, it argues, from a generative grammar perspective, for a speech acts compo...

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Main Author: Virginia Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2015-11-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BWPL_2015_2_HILL.pdf