Chapter published in:
Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of actionEdited by Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 32] 2020
► pp. 55–86
Chapter 3The emergence and routinization of complex
syntactic patterns formed with
ajatella ‘think’ and
tietää ‘know’ in Finnish
talk-in-interaction
Our paper concerns two Finnish cognitive
verbs, ajatella ‘think’, and
tietää ‘know’. We show that both
verbs are most likely to occur in the first person
singular form but behave differently with respect to
polarity: tietää occurs most
commonly in the negated form (56%), while
ajatella is only rarely negated
(less than 4%). The verbs also differ with respect
to their sequential emergence and complementation,
with tietää ‘to know’ occurring
nearly half of the time in responsive position and
without complements. Each of the most common formats
of the verbs builds or projects a specific social
action. The patterns of clause combining, in this
case, complementation or lack of it, are closely
connected to the locally contingent employment of
action.
Keywords: cognitive verb, complementation, Finnish, fixedness
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data and methodology
- 3.Complex syntactic patterns formed with
ajatella ‘think’ and
tietää ‘know’
- 3.1Morphosyntactic profiles
- 3.2 Ajatella ‘think’
- 3.3 Tietää ‘know’
- 4.Discussion: Comparison and implications
- 5.Conclusions
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Notes -
Data source -
References
Published online: 17 February 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.32.03lau
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.32.03lau
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