This article examines the Finnish että as a complementizer and as an initial and final particle in conversation. The article shows that että is not a subordinator either syntactically or actionally. Instead, the particle että, as well as the formulaic phrases (complement-taking constructions) it is a part of, implement actions in service of the main action underway. They manage the ongoing talk strategically by regulating the participant framework, and are oriented to by the participants. Therefore, neither the CTP että is a part of, nor the particle että, are actionally subordinate to the talk following että. However, when että functions as a turn-final particle, the turn in which it appears can be seen as a dependent action from the perspective of some previous activity.
2022. People with non-fluent aphasia initiating actions in everyday conversation with familiar conversation partners: resources for participation. Aphasiology 36:5 ► pp. 575 ff.
Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar & Richard Ogden
2021. “Chunking” spoken language: Introducing weak cesuras. Open Linguistics 7:1 ► pp. 531 ff.
Drake, Veronika, Andrea Golato & Peter Golato
2021.
How a Terminal Tag Can Display Epistemic Stance and Constrain Responses: The Case of
Oder Nicht
in German
. Research on Language and Social Interaction 54:3 ► pp. 319 ff.
Pekarek Doehler, Simona, Yael Maschler, Leelo Keevallik & Jan Lindström
2018. From zero to ‘you’ and back: A mixed methods study comparing the use of two open personal constructions in Finnish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 41:3 ► pp. 333 ff.
Koivisto, Aino & Liisa Voutilainen
2016.
Responding to What Is Left Implicit: Psychotherapists’ Formulations and Understanding Checks After Clients’ Turn-Final
Että
(“That/So”)
. Research on Language and Social Interaction 49:3 ► pp. 238 ff.
Drake, Veronika
2015.
Indexing Uncertainty: The Case of Turn-Final
Or
. Research on Language and Social Interaction 48:3 ► pp. 301 ff.
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