Fases en la derivación e interpretación semántico-pragmática

Abstract

This paper analyzes two texts produced by them, and reflect on how, in this context of crisis, the language is set as the possibility of re-articulation of an area of the common. This work is aimed at describing the syntax-meaning interface in terms of the interaction between relevantist and generative proposals. Our proposal is that the pragmatic operations which yield inferences put forward in Relevance Theory (RT) apply during the syntactic derivation and independently of phase transfer in the syntax. Taking the parallelism proposed in RT between these two processes, we will try to show that some inferential operations impose conditions on the functional elements, affecting their features valuation. We also support the view that D is a phase head, basing this idea on the fact that feature valuation of other heads, such as T, crucially depends on the values of the features in D.