PERFORMING ANAPHORA IN MODERN GREEK: A NEO-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS

• Authors: Michael Chiou
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper addresses the problem of interpreting anaphoric NPs in Modern Greek. It includes a proposal of a novel analysis based on the systematic interaction of the neo- Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, which provides a neat and elegant approach to NP-anaphora resolution. The findings of this study provide evidence for an account of NP-anaphora in terms of the division of labour between syntax and pragmatics and more accurately in terms of the systematic interaction of the neo-Gricean pragmatic principles.

Keywords

EN

anaphora; pragmatics; syntax; Grice

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 335-358

Dates

published

2013-09-01

online

2014-02-13

Contributors

author

Michael Chiou

• M.A., PhD in Linguistics, University of Reading, UK

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-012-0029-1