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Description:This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative "se" is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and explains the developing use of "se" based on a database consisting of spoken narratives from three different periods spanning the last one hundred years.The author proposes that the development from demonstrative to article has its roots in the way that speakers ordinarily use demonstratives in conversation, and provides an analysis of the use of "se" and the two other Finnish demonstratives, "tama" and "tuo" in a corpus of multi-party conversations, showing that speakers of Finnish use demonstratives to focus attention on important referents and to express and negotiate access to them in the interactive context of ongoing talk, and not primarily to talk about how near or far referents are. The development of "se" into a general marker of identifiability is shown to be connected with both the focusing function of demonstratives as well as its use for referents which the speaker considers accessible to the addressee.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish. To get started finding Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative "se" is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and explains the developing use of "se" based on a database consisting of spoken narratives from three different periods spanning the last one hundred years.The author proposes that the development from demonstrative to article has its roots in the way that speakers ordinarily use demonstratives in conversation, and provides an analysis of the use of "se" and the two other Finnish demonstratives, "tama" and "tuo" in a corpus of multi-party conversations, showing that speakers of Finnish use demonstratives to focus attention on important referents and to express and negotiate access to them in the interactive context of ongoing talk, and not primarily to talk about how near or far referents are. The development of "se" into a general marker of identifiability is shown to be connected with both the focusing function of demonstratives as well as its use for referents which the speaker considers accessible to the addressee.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish. To get started finding Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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