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The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interactionEdited by Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
[Typological Studies in Language 128] 2020
► pp. 154–177
Multimodal noun phrases
Leelo Keevallik | Linköping University
In co-present interaction, our bodies are continuously available for sense-making. Linguists, however, have generally analyzed grammatical patterns, such as noun phrases, separately from the rest of human behavior. This chapter looks at a collection of cases in Swedish, English, and Estonian, where the speaker initiates a noun phrase but completes it with an embodied demonstration. Other participants treat this multimodal structure as complete and comprehensible. Building on earlier research on syntactic-bodily units (Keevallik 2013, 2017) this study calls into question the analytic boundary between language and the body and argues that grammatical projection cross-cuts modalities even within the assumedly robust noun phrase.
Published online: 15 July 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.128.07kee
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.128.07kee
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Transcription conventions
The paper uses multimodal transcription conventions developed by Lorenza Mondada
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