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Publication details [#64350]

Suzuki, Ryoko and Tsuyoshi Ono. 2018. The use of frequent verbs as reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk: Formulaicity, florescence, and grammaticization. Journal of Pragmatics 123 : 209–219.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

everyday conversation | formulaic expression | language use | prosody | verb

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper documents the grammaticization of reactive tokens produced from often employed semantically-light verbs in Japanese. This was possible solely via a global, but close, investigation of daily conversation. It expands ‘florescence’ as a universal quality governing grammaticization.