Tra il dire e il fare: grammatica e pragmatica a scuola. Su costituenti, significati e referenti

In this paper I discuss two issues that bring into play interrelations between pragmatics and general linguistics, and linguistic education at school. They are: a) the relationship between sentence constituency and speakers’ acts of reference (plus information dynamics), b) the problems that two “simplified” grammar models, currently in fashion in Italian schools, pose to the understanding of sentence structure and meaning, especially with regards to reference resolution.