'Incrementing' in conversation. A comparison of practices in English, German, and Japanese

Pragmatics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 513-552

  Couper Kuhlen, Elizabeth ^a,b   Ono, Tsuyoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b University of Alberta ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Free constituent; German sentence brace; Increment; Japanese predicate finality; Post possible completion; Right dislocation; Same turn self repair; Syntactic headedness; Transition relevance place (TRP); Turn constructional unit (TCU); Zero anaphora

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649095966     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.17.4.02cou     Document Type: Article

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