Sorensen2025a
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Sorensen2025a |
| Author(s) | Søren Sandager Sørensen |
| Title | Copula variation in Danish and the intertwined nature of grammar |
| Editor(s) | Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen, Søren Sandager Sørensen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, copula, phonology, syntax, assessments, stress, clauses, Danish |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 301–331 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.37.10sor |
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| Book title | Grammar in Action: Building Comprehensive Grammars of Talk-in-Interaction |
| Chapter | 10 |
Abstract
This chapter explores constructions with the copula verb er ‘is’ in Danish. Practices employing zero copula assessments, stressed copulas and cases where syntax requires overt copula are described. Data are informal Danish interactions. The constructions are analyzed using Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. It is found that in reduced or zero copula clauses, the features of the action may depend on the predicate phrase rather than the copula. Stressed er marks a turn as asserting or contrasting with something that came before. The syntactic context requiring overt copula may project turn-ending. The aim is to discuss how the constructions studied are intertwined with other aspects of grammar and how they may fit into an interactional grammar like the Danish project Samtalegrammatik.dk.
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