Word Order in Spoken German: Syntactic Right -Expansions as an Interactionally Constructed Phenomenon
type: CreativeWork
description: Taking into account the characteristics of directionality and projection inherent to language unfolding incrementally in real time interaction, this study reveals that right-expansions emerge as a systematic syntactically structured resource in real-time interaction. Though they may appear as 'deviant' grammatical structures when judged solely on the basis of written language, right-expansions are shown to emerge as a positionally sensitive response to local interactional demands in spoken discourse.
abstract: Taking into account the characteristics of directionality and projection inherent to language unfolding incrementally in real time interaction, this study reveals that right-expansions emerge as a systematic syntactically structured resource in real-time interaction. Though they may appear as 'deviant' grammatical structures when judged solely on the basis of written language, right-expansions are shown to emerge as a positionally sensitive response to local interactional demands in spoken discourse.
author: Schoenfeldt, Juliane
language: eng
keywords: Speech Communication
date published: 2015-09-28T15:03:46Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:27Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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