Turkish is a highly inflected, agglutinative language in which subject NPs are never overtly casemarked, but object NPs often are. Although all six possible word orders are grammatical when objects are overtly casemarked, only SOV and OVS word orders are grammatical when objects lack overt casemarking. In imitation experiments, Batman-Ratyosyan and Stromswold (1999) found that 4and 5-year-old T...

This paper aims to show how clinical pragmatics (the study of pragmatic deficits) can fruitfully inform the classical theoretical models proposed by philosophical pragmatics. In the first part of the paper I argue that theories proposed in the domain of philosophical pragmatics, as those elaborated by Austin and Grice, are not plausible from a cognitive point of view and that for this reason th...

The analysis of discourse is the study of language in communication. Such a study involves contextual considerations and so it necessarily belongs to that area of linguistics called pragmatics. Pragmatics is concerned with the threetermed relation which unites linguistic forms and the communicative functions; these forms are capable of serving with the contexts or settings in which given lingui...