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Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation (Studies in Discourse and Grammar)

Robert Englebretson

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Description:This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indonesian data, the author examines four construction types which express what is often encoded by complements in other languages: juxtaposed clauses, material introduced by the discourse marker "bahwa," serial verbs, and epistemic expressions with the suffix "-nya." These four construction types offer no evidence to support complementation as a viable grammatical category in colloquial spoken Indonesian. Rather, they are best understood as emergent, discourse-level phenomena, arising from the interactive and communicative goals of language users. The lack of evidence for complementation in colloquial Indonesian reaffirms the need to understand linguistic structure as language-particular and diverse, and emphasizes the centrality of studying linguistic categories based on their actual occurrence in natural discourse.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 Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation (Studies in Discourse and Grammar). To get started finding Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation (Studies in Discourse and Grammar), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indonesian data, the author examines four construction types which express what is often encoded by complements in other languages: juxtaposed clauses, material introduced by the discourse marker "bahwa," serial verbs, and epistemic expressions with the suffix "-nya." These four construction types offer no evidence to support complementation as a viable grammatical category in colloquial spoken Indonesian. Rather, they are best understood as emergent, discourse-level phenomena, arising from the interactive and communicative goals of language users. The lack of evidence for complementation in colloquial Indonesian reaffirms the need to understand linguistic structure as language-particular and diverse, and emphasizes the centrality of studying linguistic categories based on their actual occurrence in natural discourse.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 Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation (Studies in Discourse and Grammar). To get started finding Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation (Studies in Discourse and Grammar), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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