Emergent syntax for conversation : clausal patterns and the organization of action / edited by Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström, Leelo Keevallik.

Emergent syntax for conversation : clausal patterns and the organization of action /

"This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax - that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause - relate to the local contingencies of action formation in social interaction. It examines both the on-line emergence of clause-combining patterns as they are 'patched toget...

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Other Authors: Maschler, Yael (Editor), Doehler, Simona Pekarek (Editor), Lindström, Jan, 1964- (Editor), Keevallik, Leelo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019.
Series:Studies in language and social interaction ; v. 32.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax > Case studies.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax > Study and teaching > Case studies.
Sociolinguistics > Case studies.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Complex syntax-in-interaction: Emergent and emerging clausecombining patterns for organizing social actions / Simona Pekarek Doehler, Yael Maschler, Leelo Keevallik and Jan Lindström
  • Part I. Emerging projecting constructions: 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation: Turn-taking, turn-maintaining and turn-yielding / Elwys De Stefani
  • 3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella 'think' and tietää 'know' in Finnish talk-in-interaction / Ritva Laury and Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
  • 4. The insubordinate
  • subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax / Yael Maschler
  • 5. Emergent patterns of predicative clauses in spoken Hebrew discourse: The ha'emet (hi) she- 'the truth (is) that' construction / Hilla Polak-Yitzhaki
  • 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion: The emergence of wo juede 'I feel/think' in Mandarin conversational interaction / Wei Wang and Hongyin Tao
  • Part II. Locally emergent clause-combining patterns: 7. Practices of clause-combining: From complex wenn-constructions to insubordinate ('stand-alone') conditionals in everyday spoken German / Susanne Günthner
  • 8. Grammatical coordination of embodied action: The Estonian ja 'and' as a temporal organizer of Pilates moves / Leelo Keevallik
  • 9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities: Directives and accounts in the context of physical training / Jan Lindström, Camilla Lindholm, Inga-Lill Grahn and Martina Huhtamäki
  • 10. Right-dislocated complement clauses in German talk-in-interaction (Re-)specifying propositional referents of the demonstrative pronoun das / Nadine Proske and Arnulf Deppermann
  • 11. Relative-clause increments and the management of reference: A multimodal analysis of French talk-in-interaction / Ioana-Maria Stoenica and Simona Pekarek Doehler
  • 12. Afterword / Paul J. Hopper.

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