Difference between revisions of "Hennoste2013"

From emcawiki
Jump to: navigation, search
(Created page with "{{BibEntry |BibType=ARTICLE |Author(s)=Tiit Hennoste |Title=Pivot constructions in spoken Estonian |Tag(s)=Interactional Linguistics; Conversation; Spoken Estonian; Word searc...")
(No difference)

Revision as of 04:08, 30 May 2016

Hennoste2013
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hennoste2013
Author(s) Tiit Hennoste
Title Pivot constructions in spoken Estonian
Editor(s)
Tag(s) Interactional Linguistics, Conversation, Spoken Estonian, Word search, Post-positioned self-initiated self-repair, Pivot construction
Publisher
Year 2013
Language
City
Month
Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 54
Number
Pages 73--91
URL
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.03.012
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title
Chapter

Download BibTex

Abstract

This article examines pivot constructions (PCs) in Estonian interaction. The data (146 examples from 135 randomly selected conversations) come from Corpus of spoken Estonian. The first section presents the main structural types of Estonian PCs. In addition to single-pivot PCs, the Estonian data revealed PCs with two pivots (and as a consequence: three pre-/post-pivots segments), which have not been mentioned in the literature before. The next section presents an analysis of (word)-searches made by PCs in Estonian. Four different variants of searches are presented according to the location of the initiation and outcome of the search with regard to the pivot. The last section analyses post-positioned self-repairs made by PCs. They are used almost always to offer an alternative verb. All post-positioned self-repairs are associated with the purpose of making information more accurate, precise, or specific. The analysis also showed that there is a division of labor between verb replacements made with or without PC.

Notes