Auer2014b

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Auer2014b
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Key Auer2014b
Author(s) Peter Auer
Title Syntactic structures and their symbiotic guests: notes on analepsis from the perspective of on-line syntax
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Tag(s) IL, Analepsis, On-line syntax, Structural latency
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Year 2014
Language English
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Journal Pragmatics
Volume 24
Number 3
Pages 533–560
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DOI 10.1075/prag.24.3.05aue
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Abstract

The empirical focus of this paper is on utterances that re-use syntactic structures from a preceding syntactic unit. Next utterances of this type are usually treated as (coordination) ellipsis. It is argued that from an on-line perspective on spoken syntax, they are better described as structural latency: A grammatical structure already established remains available and can therefore be made use of with one or more of its slots being filled by new material. A variety of cases of this particular kind of conversational symbiosis are discussed. It is argued that they should receive a common treatment. A number of features of the general host/guest relationship are discussed.

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