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Abstract
The nature of pragmatics is not generally thought to have significant implications for the form of models of grammar, even among pragmaticians. But post-Gricean cognitive pragmatic frameworks such as Relevance Theory implicitly make demands on the grammatical ‘code’ – and on how we investigate it – that cannot be accommodated within conventional approaches to grammar. Ultimately, this gives us cause to reconceptualise grammar entirely, to accommodate the dynamism that is inherent to inferential pragmatics. This amounts to a conceptual argument for the adoption of a model of grammar of the type of Dynamic Syntax.
Published Online: 2012-10-13
Published in Print: 2012-10-26
©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
