TY  - CONF
A1  - LaPolla, Randy J.
T1  - The how and why of syntactic relations
N2  - Human communication takes place when one person does something that when seen or heard by another person is taken to be done with the intention to communicate, and the other person, having seen the communicator show his or her intention to communicate, then uses inference to determine what the communicator intends to communicate. This is possible because the addressee assumes that the communicator is a rational person, that is, acts with goals in mind (see Grice 1975), and so must be doing the act for a reason, and it is worth the addressee’s effort to try to determine what that reason is, that is, determine the relevance of the act.
KW  - Syntax
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14880
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1158053
UR  - http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/How_and_why_of_syntactic_relations.pdf
N1  - Invited plenary address and keynote of the Centre for Research on Language Change Workshop on Grammatical Change at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, University of Queensland, 7-9 July, 2006
ER  -