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Helasvuo2004
BibType ARTICLE
Key Helasvuo2004
Author(s) Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Title Shared syntax: the grammar of co-constructions
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Tag(s) conversation analysis, shared syntax, co-construction, Finnish, compound TCUs, sentences-in-progress
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Year 2004
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 38
Number 8
Pages 1315–1336
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.05.007
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Abstract

This paper focuses on co-constructions, i.e., clauses that are produced collaboratively by the conversation participants (see Sacks, 1992: 647–655; Lerner, 1991, 1994, 1996; Ono and Thompson, 1996). More specifically, the paper looks at completions that involve the co-construction of one clause. The data for the study come from Finnish, and offer an interesting perspective on the phenomenon, as Finnish is a language with rich inflectional morphology. Each item in the clause is inflected in a form that shows its function in the clause. This means that in a completion, the form of each item in both the preliminary and final part is controlled by the emerging unit as a whole. Completions are shown to occur at different syntactic levels, both at constituent boundaries and also within constituents (e.g., within a noun phrase) and even within lexical units. The conclusion is that syntax is shared and jointly produced, from the smallest units up to larger sequences.

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