Mapping the pragmatic field: in how many ways?

Abstract This review provides comments on the attempts made in the literature to capture the way in which elements of conversational pragmatics impact the syntax of clauses. The focus is on the neo-performative and the interaction-based models, such as presented in Martina Wiltschko's target paper. Briefly, the observation is that the differences noticed in the technical implementation and the type of empirical data that support these models are quite superficial, while none of these models is yet comprehensive when it comes to the formalization of the pragmatic field from a cross-linguistic perspective.