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Publication details [#42592]

Östman, Jan-Ola and Mirjam Fried. 2005. Construction Grammar and spoken language: The case of pragmatic particles. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (11) : 1752–1778.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This study demonstrates that Construction Grammar can be usefully applied to examine the complexities of spoken language, if the notion of construction is extended in a dialogical direction. It then uses CG to investigate a number of pragmatic particles as form-function constellations in Czech.