Mushin2018
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Mushin2018 |
| Author(s) | Ilana Mushin |
| Title | Diverging from ‘business as usual’: Turn-initial ngala in Garrwa conversation |
| Editor(s) | John Heritage, Marja-Leena Sorjonen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Garrwa, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Turn-Initial Position |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
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| Pages | 119–154 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.31.05mus |
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| Book title | Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages |
| Chapter | 5 |
Abstract
This paper presents the first detailed attempt to analyse the interactional functions of a turn-initial particle in an Australian Aboriginal language. The Garrwa particle ngala has grammatical properties of a clause connector that sets up a contrast between two simultaneous but distinct events (similar to English while). In this paper I show that ngala is used in conversation turn-initially to simultaneously connect the upcoming talk with the prior turn and to project that the upcoming turn diverges in trajectory from the prior talk or course of action. I also show how the clause connecting and turn-initial functions of ngala are characterised by distinct syntactic and prosodic shapes.
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