Shared syntax: the grammar of co-constructions  

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Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 36 no. 8 (Aug. 2004), page 1315-1336.
Topik: Conversation analysis; Shared syntax; Co-construction; Finnish; Compound TCUs; Sentences-inprogress
Fulltext: Helasvuo_Marja-Liisa.pdf (172.17KB)

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This paper focuses on co-constructions, i.e., clauses that are produced collaboratively by the conversation participants (see Sacks, 1992: 647–655; Lerner, 1991, 1994, 1996; Ono and Thompson, 1996). More specifically, the paper looks at completions that involve the co-construction of one clause. The data for the study come from Finnish, and offer an interesting perspective on the phenomenon, as Finnish is a language with rich inflectional morphology. Each item in the clause is inflected in a form that shows its function in the clause. This means that in a completion, the form of each item in both the preliminary and final part is controlled by the emerging unit as a whole. Completions are shown to occur at different syntactic levels, both at constituent boundaries and also within constituents (e.g., within a noun phrase) and even within lexical units. The conclusion is that syntax is shared and jointly produced, from the smallest units up to larger sequences.

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