Syntactic and actional characteristics of Finnish että-clauses

Koivisto, Aino; Laury, Ritva; Seppänen, Eeva-Leena

doi:10.1075/slsi.24.05koi

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“…By the time the speaker gets to the connector et, the recipients probably expect that a voicing will follow (cf. Routarinne 2005; Laury & Seppä-nen 2008; Koivisto et al 2011: 76, ISK § 1487, § 1489. 7 That a voicing is going to take place and who is voiced is therefore clear even before the actual voicing begins.…”

Section: Code-switching That Invokes a Voice-personamentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Frick¹,

Riionheimo

2013

Multilingua

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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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Section: Code-switching That Invokes a Voice-personamentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Frick¹,

Riionheimo

2013

Multilingua

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“…Differently from languages like Swedish and German, for example, word order does not distinguish between main and subordinate clauses in Finnish. And, as will be shown in this paper, clauses that are formally subordinate and marked as such with subordinating conjunctions may appear independently, without any main clauses (Laury 2006;Koivisto, Seppänen & Laury 2011;Laury 2012; for a typological account of 'insubordination', see Evans 2007). The following examples illustrate Finnish clauses and clause combinations.…”

Section: Finnishmentioning

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“…Et is traditionally analyzed as a complementizer, but recent studies (Laury & Seppänen 2008;Koivisto, Laury & Seppänen 2011;Koivisto 2011) have shown that et functions not only as a complementizer, but also as both an initial and a final particle. In all three of its uses, it reorganizes the participant framework (Goffman 1981): It is used to index the introduction of another voice into the conversation (see also Hakulinen et al 2004 on the use of et in the referring construction).…”

Section: Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Onomentioning

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The limits of grammar: Clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation

Laury¹,

Ono²

2015

PRAG

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Our paper concerns the grammar of clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation. We consider the patterns of clause combining in our data and focus on the verbal and non-verbal cues which allow participants to determine whether, after the end of a clause-sized unit, the turn will end or continue with another clause-sized unit, resulting in a clause combination. We conclude that morphosyntax alone cannot account for the patterns found in our data, but that the participants orient to, at least, prosodic and nonverbal cues in determining the boundaries of clauses and projecting continuation in the form of another clause. Also important for projection are fixed expressions or 'prefabs'. In addition, semantic and pragmatic factors play a role. In that sense, we explore the question of where the limits of grammar for interaction, understood as the knowledge which speakers share and which forms the basis for the creation and processing of novel utterances, should be drawn, and whether grammar should include, beyond morphosyntax, not only prosodic, pragmatic and semantic features but also bodily behavior.

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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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Syntactic and actional characteristics of Finnish että-clauses

Cited by 86 publications

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

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

The limits of grammar: Clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation

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

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