Clause combining, interaction, evidentiality, participation structure, and the conjunction-particle continuum: The Finnish<i>että</i>

Laury, Ritva; Seppänen, Eeva-Leena

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“…With an updated perspective that benefits both from the renewed perspective on code-switching and recent studies of voicings in Finnish and Estonian interaction (Routarinne 2005;Laury & Seppänen 2008;Keevallik 2008) we propose to revisit code-switching in voicings. In this paper, we argue that codeswitching between closely related languages, and even in a mixed language base, can still be interactionally meaningful.…”

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Bilingual voicing: A study of code-switching in the reported speech of Finnish immigrants in Estonia

Frick¹,

Riionheimo

2013

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Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish-Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing the current speech event by imposing a context of prior texts upon it. The study shows that code-switching can be used in an interactionally meaningful way even when a) the morphosyntactic and lexical border between the two languages is not strictly salient, and b) when the participants do not orient towards the two varieties as indexical of specific social groups or values associated with them. In light of these results, the conclusion is drawn that although the two languages are clearly interrelated for the speakers, Finns in Estonia still orient towards two relatively distinct sets of linguistic features and operate with this difference as a resource in interaction. These findings are discussed in light of recent sociolinguistic theories that find the opposition of two languages in conversation often to lack any meaning for the participants.

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Bilingual voicing: A study of code-switching in the reported speech of Finnish immigrants in Estonia

Frick¹,

Riionheimo

2013

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“…5. Että-clauses have been described as complements in Finnish, making että a complementizer, but että also functions as a turn-initial and turn-final particle (see Seppänen and Laury 2007;Laury and Seppänen 2008;Koivisto et al 2011;Koivisto 2011; see also Keevallik [2008] on the cognate Estonian et). Ku(n) and jos clauses might ordinarily be analyzed as adverbial clauses rather than complement clauses, but they have also been noted to function as complements (see Hakulinen et al 2004Hakulinen et al : 1098Hakulinen et al -1099on ku(n), see Herlin 1998).…”

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Taking a stance and getting on with it: the form and function of the Finnish finite clausal extraposition construction

Laury¹

2012

Text &Amp; Talk

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This paper concerns a particular grammatical construction, extraposition, and its use for assessments at points of transition between activities and topics by speakers of Finnish in ordinary conversation. A basic assumption taken here is that "recurrent clausal constructions of a language are social action formats for that language" (Thompson 2006), and that grammatical constructions such as clause types are learned and therefore routinized responses to certain types of interactional contingencies, and, at the same time, emergent from the current local context (Hopper 1987;Helasvuo 2001).The paper combines the two central perspectives developed in this issue, sequential design and dialogicality, with the study of grammar-in-interaction. It shows that the grammatical form of the Finnish extraposition construction emerges from its use by speakers for the creation of intersubjectivity through reproduction of prior talk and for the projection of stance taking to follow.

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“…Thus, the niin-clause and the jos-clause are not prosodically linked. Another problem with analyzing the niin-initial turn as the main clause of the jos-clause is that we are not dealing here with just a simple clause, but a string of clauses-the first clause in lines 5 and 6 is linked with ja 'and' to a complex construction made up of a complement-taking predicate (CTP; Thompson, 2002) sen jälkee mie ilmottasin 'after that I would announce' in line 7, followed by two subsequent et(tä)-initial "complement" clauses, which are simply juxtaposed (or asyndetically linked; see Gohl, 2000; on successive että-clauses with no linkers, see Laury, 2006, andSeppänen, 2008)-LAURY namely, et nyt mie jäin (.) <työttömäksi> 'that now I became unemployed' in lines 7 and 8 and että tuota (0.4) tarvitsen tyättömyyskorvausta 'that I need unemployment compensation' in lines 8 and 10, followed by a juxtaposed main clause (lines 10-11), sillonha miulle ei tulis mitää 'then I wouldn't get anything'.…”

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“…On the status of että as a complementizer, seeLaury (2006),Laury and Seppänen (2008), andSeppänen and Laury (2007). Downloaded by [Florida State University] at 04:19 20 December 2014…”

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Clause combining, interaction, evidentiality, participation structure, and the conjunction-particle continuum: The Finnishettä

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Bilingual voicing: A study of code-switching in the reported speech of Finnish immigrants in Estonia

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Taking a stance and getting on with it: the form and function of the Finnish finite clausal extraposition construction

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