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Publication details [#64346]

Laury, Ritva. 2018. The Finnish verb repeat response: Its emergence and its nature as a formulaic expression. Journal of Pragmatics 123 : 139–150.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

formulaic expression | repeating | response | talk-in-interaction | verb

Language as a subject

Finnish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The Finnish verb repeat response is not best described as resulting from ellipsis. This rising, dynamic unit results from copying and shows the penetrative dialogism of talk-in-interaction. Only one of its many formats approximates a fixed expression status.