Hopper2021
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Paul J. Hopper |
| Title | “You turn your back and there’s somebody moving in”. Syntactic anacrusis in spoken English |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, In press, coordination, anacrustic/anacrusis, emergent grammar, biclausal, construction, boosting, conditional, speech acts, mirativity, style |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Interactional Linguistics |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1075/il.20009.hop |
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Abstract
Anacrustic Coordination (AC) is a type of biclausal conjunction such that an initial clause or phrase sets up a state of affairs and is followed by and and a strongly focused second clause, for example three years it’s been sitting here and I haven’t done it. AC figures in a number of kinds of interaction. One is the topic/comment conditional, as in call it up and there’s something that actually says your number. It is a possibility for enhancing certain illocutionary acts such as threats and warnings: I’m gonna take that and I’m gonna dig it into you. It is a basis for syntactic mirativity, the coding of surprise and unexpectedness (DeLancey 1997): you turn your back and there’s somebody moving in. AC raises questions about the nature of constructions and of Construction Grammar.
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