What is it about?
This study shows how superficially similar word-order output in Swedish is differentiated by semantic-sequential attributes. The word-order pattern in question appears in sentences/clauses that are initiated with the finite verb: interrogatives, conditionals and declaratives. The explanatory tool used builds on Construction Grammar, extended with attributes that are sensitive to the sequential location of the verb-first utterance in real verbal interaction.
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Why is it important?
The study offers an innovative analytic tool for studies of grammar in talk-in-interaction that want to combine insights from grammatical and interactional-sequential facts for an adequate account of constructions in real language use.
Perspectives
The study sets out to increase the power of constructional analysis through structural facts of grammar and interaction.
Professor Jan K Lindström
Helsingin Yliopisto
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This page is a summary of: On the place of turn and sequence in grammar, Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), September 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/prag.24.3.04lin.
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