Recent research in the area of Second Language Acquisition has proposed that bilinguals and L2 learners show syntactic indeterminacy when syntactic properties interface with other cognitive domains. Most of the research in this area has focused on the pragmatic use of syntactic properties while the investigation of compliance with a grammatical rule at syntax-related interfaces has not received...

Abstract Despite notable recent exceptions (for instance Funke, 2020), corpus-based research into South Asian Englishes has so far concentrated on structural features. Thus, empirical pragmatic in said varieties is still sparse, although there been increasing interest variational pragmatics world (Schneider & Barron, 2008). For instance, requests have examined both native and non-native of ...

The avowed aim of this first volume in the Current Research in the Semantics/ Pragmatics Interface series is, according to its editor, ‘‘to begin to take some steps to reducing the heat of [. . .] discussions [relating to how linguistically-conveyed meaning should be defined, and therefore studied; M.T.] and to begin to increase the light that might profitably be shed on some of the problems of...

Pragmatics is one of the branches linguistics which includes relationship between outside language and intent an utterance, while pragmatics itself a study that studies use associated with context in it used. The meaning can be understood if known. This focuses on branch pragmatics, namely Arabic directive speech acts animation "The Story Imam Hasan Al-Bashri ''. serves to explain describe form...

My recent and ongoing research is focused on the interpretation of referring expressions (e.g. she, Rosa, that woman, the woman we talked about yesterday) as a window on the semantics-pragmatics interface. Referring expressions have attracted a great deal of interest in fields concerned with linguistic meaning, including semantics, psycholinguistics, and the philosophy of language, because they...