Gubina2025a
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Gubina2025a |
| Author(s) | Alexandra Gubina |
| Title | Structurally ‘incomplete’ social action formats in the grammar of talk-in-interaction?: The case of deontic infinitives in spoken German |
| Editor(s) | Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen, Søren Sandager Sørensen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, social action format, deontic infinitive, rule, instruction, request, agency, epistemics, embodiment, German as Foreign/Second Language, Interactional Linguistics |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 116–154 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.37.05gub |
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| Book title | Grammar in Action: Building Comprehensive Grammars of Talk-in-Interaction |
| Chapter | 5 |
Abstract
The chapter focuses on deontic infinitives, i.e., free infinitives not governed by a matrix clause or an auxiliary; such clauses have not been treated in German reference grammars because they are considered syntactically incomplete. This chapter shows that in contrast to similar practices for requests, directives, and instructions (Gubina & Deppermann frthc.), deontic infinitives implement instructions of a normatively proper procedure or rule, which, in most cases, applies both now and each time this procedure is accomplished. The chapter discusses which features (e.g., sequence and activity context, distribution of agency, epistemic and deontic positionings, etc.) should be included in reference grammars of talk-in-interaction and in current curricula of German as Foreign/Second Language. The chapter concludes by discussing possible challenges for creating a comprehensive grammar of spoken language.
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