Chapter 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion
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Wei Wang
Abstract
One way complex clauses manifest themselves is through a combination of a matrix clause and a complement clause. However, matrix clauses as represented by constructions such as I think have been widely reported to undergo grammaticization, whereby they become a marker indicating the speaker’s epistemic stance. This has also been identified for Mandarin Chinese. In this chapter, however, we report that wo juede ‘I feel/think’ in Mandarin has developed a conversation interactional function that extends turns-at-talk – a phenomenon that has not yet received much attention in the Chinese literature on talk in interaction. By providing an account for the link between the epistemic/evaluative uses and the turn-expansion function of the erstwhile matrix clause, this paper brings in an extended, interactional dimension to the study of clause-combining.
Abstract
One way complex clauses manifest themselves is through a combination of a matrix clause and a complement clause. However, matrix clauses as represented by constructions such as I think have been widely reported to undergo grammaticization, whereby they become a marker indicating the speaker’s epistemic stance. This has also been identified for Mandarin Chinese. In this chapter, however, we report that wo juede ‘I feel/think’ in Mandarin has developed a conversation interactional function that extends turns-at-talk – a phenomenon that has not yet received much attention in the Chinese literature on talk in interaction. By providing an account for the link between the epistemic/evaluative uses and the turn-expansion function of the erstwhile matrix clause, this paper brings in an extended, interactional dimension to the study of clause-combining.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Complex syntax-in-interaction 1
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Part I. Emerging projecting constructions
- Chapter 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation 25
- Chapter 3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella ‘think’ and tietää ‘know’ in Finnish talk-in-interaction 55
- Chapter 4. The insubordinate – subordinate continuum 87
- Chapter 5. Emergent patterns of predicative clauses in spoken Hebrew discourse 127
- Chapter 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion 151
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Part II. Locally emergent clause-combining patterns
- Chapter 7. Practices of clause-combining 185
- Chapter 8. Grammatical coordination of embodied action 221
- Chapter 9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities 245
- Chapter 10. Right-dislocated complement clauses in German talk-in-interaction 275
- Chapter 11. Relative-clause increments and the management of reference 303
- Chapter 12. Afterword 331
- Index 339
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Complex syntax-in-interaction 1
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Part I. Emerging projecting constructions
- Chapter 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation 25
- Chapter 3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella ‘think’ and tietää ‘know’ in Finnish talk-in-interaction 55
- Chapter 4. The insubordinate – subordinate continuum 87
- Chapter 5. Emergent patterns of predicative clauses in spoken Hebrew discourse 127
- Chapter 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion 151
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Part II. Locally emergent clause-combining patterns
- Chapter 7. Practices of clause-combining 185
- Chapter 8. Grammatical coordination of embodied action 221
- Chapter 9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities 245
- Chapter 10. Right-dislocated complement clauses in German talk-in-interaction 275
- Chapter 11. Relative-clause increments and the management of reference 303
- Chapter 12. Afterword 331
- Index 339
