Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)
Free NPs as units in Finnish
Julkaisun tekijät: Helasvuo Marja-Liisa
Kustantaja: John Benjamins
Paikka: Amsterdam
Julkaisuvuosi: 2019
Journal: Studies in Language
Volyymi: 43
Julkaisunumero: 2
Aloitussivu: 301
Lopetussivun numero: 328
Sivujen määrä: 28
ISSN: 0378-4177
eISSN: 1569-9978
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.16064.hel
Verkko-osoite: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.16064.hel
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/42908848
This article focuses on free NPs, i.e. noun phrases that are grammatically not part of any clause but form units of their own. Using the methodology of discourse-functional and interactional linguistics, I analyze the morphosyntactic, prosodic and interactional features of free NPs in conversational Finnish. With its rich morphological marking, Finnish provides an interesting perspective on free NPs: Morphosyntactic features, together with semantics, are crucial in determining the status of an NP as a clausal constituent or a free NP. The prosodic analysis shows that the majority of free NPs show clear prosodic boundaries, signalled for example by speaker change, coherent intonation contour, pause or pitch reset. Free NPs serve various interactional functions, such as making assessments or disambiguating referents. These are functions which operate on something already established in the discourse. Free NPs , however can also initiate something new for example by making requests or introducing new topics.
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