Dynamics in the meaning of sentence and of discourse

From a linguistic viewpoint it may be stated that most different elements or parts of the system of language itself and of its use in communication are dynamic. The aim of the present contribution is (1) to discuss the impact of dynamics on the sentence structure, pointing out that, nevertheless, its core can be described as having a substantially simple structure, so that the relative easiness of the child's acquisition of language may be described as based on a pattern not far more complex than systems that are understood as innate on independent reasons, and (2) to illustrate how the dynamics of the discourse patterns can be seen as connected with a finite mechanism enabling the herarer to identify the coreferential antecedents. 1. Dynamics within the sentence 1.1. The intrinsic dynamics of communication, present in the utterance (sentence occurrence), is also reflected in the structure of a sentence as a type, since sentence is anchored in the context by the topic-focus articulation (TFA, information structure) of the sentence. TFA reflects the ‘given – new ’ strategy, but differs from it in belonging to the systems of individual language, rather than to the domain o