Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7297637 Journal of Pragmatics 2018 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

- The Finnish verb repeat response is not best described as resulting from ellipsis.
- It results from copying and manifests the pervasive dialogism of talk-in-interaction.
- The verb repeat response is a dynamic, emergent unit.
- Only one of its many formats approaches the status of a fixed expression.
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The Finnish verb repeat response: Its emergence and its nature as a formulaic expression
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