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Publication details [#3928]

Green, Georgia M. 1974. The function of form and the form of function. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 10 : 186–197.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

co-text | implication | intention

Annotation

G. demonstrates that the acceptability of certain syntactic constructions depends not on the syntactic environment, but on the communicative intent of the speaker (i.e. on what he intends to implicate).