Actionism in syntax and semantics

• Gregoromichelaki, Eleni
• Kempson, Ruth
• Howes, Christine

In this paper, we present a view of syntax which is compatible with a perspective on perception called actionism. First we argue for the extension of the actionist view, which has been developed in the domain of low-level perception/action, to natural language on the basis that the motivating phenomena are parallel. We then show that the relevant natural language phenomena include both semantic/pragmatic and syntactic issues and, on this basis, call for a dynamic conception of the `grammar' that integrates both conceptualisation and syntactic licensing under uniform formal assumptions operating at the level of agent coordination rather than intra-individual mechanisms.

Research areas:

• Pragmatics

Year:

2020

Type of Publication:

In Collection

JRESEARCH_BOOK_TITLE:

Dialogue and Perception - Extended papers from DaP2018

Publisher:

GUPEA

Editor:

Christine Howes and Simon Dobnik and Ellen Breitholtz

Pages:

12-27