This paper focuses on ‘clause’, a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese,
two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the
basis of which this structural unit has been most typically discussed. We first examine how structural units including the clause
have been discussed in the literature on Finnish and Japanese. We will then examine the reality of the clause in everyday talk in
these languages quantitatively and qualitatively; in our qualitative analysis, we focus in particular on what units are oriented
to by conversational participants. The current study suggests that the degree of grammaticization of the clause varies
cross-linguistically and questions the central theoretical status accorded to this structural unit.
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