ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that a good case can be made for positing a class of stylistic rules which operate as an independent component, essentially, of grammatical theory. Two likely relevant areas of investigation are: one deals with the interaction of anaphora rules in general with stylistic rules, and the other involves conditions on the application of stylistic rules. Structural tests for the phrasing of stylistically derived sentence are virtually nonexistent at present, it is difficult to see how stylistic rules could be shown to affect conditions on the determination of pronominal reference. It has been argued that the notion 'utterer's meaning' can only be determined with respect to language, and that contextual discourse conditions on language use are reflected in characteristics of sentence grammar. Finally, the especially obstinate problem of explicitly defining the relationship between focus and nonstylistically derived focus sensitive constructions, such as the affective conditioned inversion construction, remains only incompletely resolved.
