Auer2014b
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| 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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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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