Changes in historical syntax - with a pragmatic background

• Authors: Haader L.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses the relationship between grammar and pragmatics from the point of view of historical grammar writing. Language system provides a set of possibilities of variation, the selection among which is mainly directed by pragmatic factors in that certain types of texts may prefer certain syntactic phenomena. In turn, syntax thus influenced by language use may become the source of new grammatical changes. That is how language use and language system are integrated: hence, no opposition between pragmatics and grammar is worth pursuing.

Keywords

EN

GRAMMAR; HISTORICAL SYNTAX; PRAGMATICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 128
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 464-469
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Haader L.

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06HUAAAA01042393