
Demonstratives in Interaction
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The author proposes that the development from demonstrative to article has its roots in the way that speakers ordinarily use demonstratives in conversation, and provides an analysis of the use of se and the two other Finnish demonstratives, tämä and tuo in a corpus of multi-party conversations, showing that speakers of Finnish use demonstratives to focus attention on important referents and to express and negotiate access to them in the interactive context of ongoing talk, and not primarily to talk about how near or far referents are. The development of se into a general marker of identifiability is shown to be connected with both the focusing function of demonstratives as well as its use for referents which the speaker considers accessible to the addressee.
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- DEMONSTRATIVES IN INTERACTION THE EMERGENCE OF A DEFINITE ARTICLE IN FINNISH
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Objectives
- 1.2. Orientation
- 1.3. Organization
- 1.4. Data
- 1.4.1. The conversational corpus
- 1.4.2. The narrative corpus
- 1.4.2.1. Late 1800s narratives
- 1.4.2.2. 1930s and 40s narratives
- 1.4.2.3. Modern narratives
- 1.4.3. The issue of comparability between groups of data
- 1.5. Method of analysis
- 1.5.1. Transcription
- 1.5.2. Coding
- 1.5.2.1. Noun phrase type
- 1.5.2.2. Referent and number of mention
- 1.5.2.3. Semantic Class
- 1.5.2.4. Identifiability and identiflability path
- 1.5.2.5. Activation cost
- 1.5.2.6. Discourse referentiality
- 1.5.2.7. Case and grammatical role
- 1.5.2.8. Word order
- 1.6. Summary
- Chapter 2. Deixis and identifiability
- 2.1. Deixis and demonstratives
- 2.2. Identifiability
- Chapter 3. The Finnish demonstratives
- 3.1. The demonstratives and their forms
- 3.2. Previous studies of the Finnish demonstratives
- 3.3. The Finnish demonstratives in use: A non-concrete view
- 3.3.1. The use of demonstratives for referents present in the situation
- 3.3.1.1. Tämä
- 3.3.1.2. Tuo
- 3.3.1.3 Se
- 3.3.2. Use of demonstratives for referents not present in the speech situation
- 3.3.2.1. The discourse deictic use of demonstratives
- 3.3.2.2. The use of demonstratives in introduction and tracking of referents
- 3.4. The locative-adverbial forms of the demonstratives
- 3.5. Summary
- Chapter 4. The grammaticization of se as a marker of identifiability
- 4.1. Se-marking in the narratives from the 1800s
- 4.1.1. Se-marking and prominence
- 4.1.2. Se-marking and activation cost
- 4.1.2.1. Se-marking of noun phrases with accessible referents
- 4.1.2.2. Se-marking of noun phrases with given referents
- 4.1.3. Grammatical role and se-marking
- 4.1.4. Identifiability, discourse referentiality and se-marking
- 4.1.5. Se-marking and semantic class
- 4.1.6. Summary
- 4.2. Se-marking in the narratives from the 1930s
- 4.2.1. The frequency of se-marking
- 4.2.2. Se-marking and activation cost
- 4.2.3 Discourse prominence and se-marking
- 4.2.4. Identifiability path and se-marking
- 4.2.5. Grammatical function and se-marking
- 4.2.6. Summary
- 4.3. Se-marking in the modern data
- 4.3.1. The frequency of se-marking
- 4.3.2. Se-marking and prominence
- 4.3.3. Se-marking and activation cost in the modern data
- 4.3.4. Se-marking and grammatical role
- 4.3.6. What kinds of noun phrases are not se-marked in the modern data?
- 4.4. Is se an article yet?
- 4.5. About the role of external influence
- 4.6. Conclusions
- Notes
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Appendix
- Transcription symbols
- Abbreviations
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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