[B-Greek] Wallace or Porter?

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 30 12:59:34 EDT 2005


CWestf5155 at aol.com wrote:

"I'm intimately acquainted with both works ... But much of what Ben  
observes below is a difference in theory."

Dr. Westfall,

How would you compare Porter to Wallace in terms of a code model  
framework?
Has Porter incorporated the insights about semantic inference from  
Relevance Theory (Diane Blakemore, Robin Carston, Ernst-August Gutt)  
into his linguistic framework?
How does this impact his treatment of syntax?

In the traditional framework when one runs across what looks like a  
defective (abbreviated) clause structure the analysis proceeds to  
describe what is missing. Relevance Theory maximizes the inferential  
component in the communication process and it seems to me that this  
would have some impact on how we understand abbreviations in syntax.

Elizabeth Kline







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