Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck
[Human Cognitive Processing 70] 2020
► pp. 267–308
Based on the relatively broad evidence for the assumption that language structure and linguistic cognition are organized in a dualistic way, this chapter follows proposals for a distinction between microstructures and macrostructures in language. While the first serve the establishment of morphosyntactic and semantic relationships, the latter are responsible for structuration in terms of discourse structure, interaction management and cognitive alignment. Using “extra-clausal” constituents as an example, it will be shown that there are points in spoken discourse that are highly sensitive for the structuration of language on a macrolevel, namely the beginning and the end of turns, and that expressions serving macrostructure, which tend to cluster in these positions, have a syntax of their own.