Book Details

The Grammar of Interactional Language / Martina Wiltschko

Publication year: 2021

ISBN: 9781108741446

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This groundbreaking book addresses this gap by providing the first in-depth overview of approaches towards interactional language across different frameworks and linguistic sub-disciplines. Based on the insights that emerge, a formal framework is developed to discover and compare language in interaction across different languages: the interactional spine hypothesis. Two case-studies are presented: confirmationals (such as eh and huh) and response markers (such as yes and no), both of which show evidence for systematic grammatical knowledge.


Subject: Linguistics, Grammar and Syntax, Language and Linguistics, Discourse Analysis