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Auer2007
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Peter Auer
Title Why are increments such elusive objects? An afterthought
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Tag(s) IL, Increments, TCU, Unit expansion
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Year 2007
Language English
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Journal Pragmatics
Volume 17
Number 4
Pages 647–658
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DOI 10.1075/prag.17.4.03aue
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Abstract

It is argued that the type of unit expansions called ‘increments’ by Schegloff 1996 is too narrowly focused on English. While the structure of English makes it particularly suited for this kind of expansion, a typologically more satisfactory approach to unit expansion runs into problems if it remains on the syntactic plane alone. A full typology will have to take into account, not only prosody and semantics, but also action structure and pragmatics at large.

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