Grecian Gricean -- Gricean Grecian

Chapman notes re: Grice's notes in "Aspects of Reason" on

volitive
imperative
optative
inquisitive

etc.

"For [most] modes, ... the syntax [grammar] of English does not reflect [variants]" (p. 132 of Chapman). I note marginally:

I would submit that, like Austin -- I'm all with Austin & Grice in my head as I write having found out that they are THE key authors in a recent "Key Terms in Pragmatics".

--- Grice was more confident (confidant?) with

GREEK

and second,

LATIN

-- Oxonian credo reverses Shakespeare there --.

grammar than he would be with _English_ grammar. Recall that until the French came to existence, with their myth ("French is a logical language"), English grammarians would often rely on _Latin_ grammar (Priscian) which would herself rely on _Greek_ grammar (Thrax) to _label_ things.

In other words, Grice's reflections on a mode or two NOT being 'realised' syntactically, or morphologically, if you must, in this or that Language (e.g. English as opposed to say Greek) need to be taken with _three_ pinches of _oregano_.