Searching for Structure
The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation
| Rice University
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.
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | p. ix
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1. Preliminaries | p. 1
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2. Juxtaposed clauses | p. 37
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3. Complementizers in context: An analysis of bahwa | p. 93
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4. Verbs in series | p. 127
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5. Epistemic — nya constructions | p. 153
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6. Conclusion | p. 187
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Appendices | p. 199
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Name index | p. 201
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Subject index | p. 203
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BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General