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Publication details [#63872]

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth. 2018. Finding a Place for Body Movement in Grammar. Research on Language & Social Interaction 51 (1) : 22–25.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | grammar1 | language use | social interaction | utterance

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper states that body movements are not part of grammar in a strict sense of the word. In “composite” utterances they fill slits that grammatical structures produce, without being grammatical parts themselves.