Lerner1991
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Lerner1991 |
| Author(s) | Gene H. Lerner |
| Title | On the syntax of sentences-in-progress |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Syntax, Collaborative completions |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 20 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 441–458 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404500016572 |
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Abstract
This article describes how it could be possible for two participants engaged in conversation to jointly produce a single syntactic unit such as a sentence. From an inspection of sentence types that are achieved through such joint production, it was determined that participants have available a single utterance construction format. This format, the compound turn-constructional unit format, may be a component of a socially construed syntax-for-conversation. It can be constituted by a wide range of interactionally relevant features of talk in interaction that reveal an emerging utterance as a multiple component turn-constructional unit. The compound turn-constructional unit format is primarily a resource for turn-taking. It can be used to project the next proper place for speaker change. However, it concomitantly provides the resources needed to complete the utterance-in-progress of another participant, thus allowing for the construction of a single sentence across the talk of two speakers.
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