The Interaction between Grammar and Implicatures in Eliciting Meaning

Grammar is a level of structural organization that is generally separated into the branches of syntax and morphology and can be studied apart from phonology and semantics. In this regard, grammar is the study of how sentences are formed by the combination of words and their constituent elements. Knowing the implied meaning of an utterance can be done by syntax through different ways governed by specific syntactic rules which enable the reader to elicit the hidden meaning behind that utterance. The modal adopted in this study is An Introduction to English Grammar (1999) proposed by Greenbaum, S. and Nelson, G.. The problem of study lies in the failure of some listeners to recognize the implicature that leads to a literal interpretation which misses the intended meaning of the speaker. The study aims at stating the significant role that the syntactic structure plays in detecting the meaning of the sentence through the implicature it contains. The conclusions that the study arrives at focus on the relations between grammar and implicatures in eliciting meaning and on the crucial role that the context plays in that elicitation.Keywords: Grammar, implicature, meaning, eliciting, interaction.