Searching for structure : the problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation

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Searching for structure : the problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation

Robert Englebretson

(Studies in discourse and grammar / editors, Sandra A. Thompson, Paul J. Hopper, v. 13)

John Benjamins, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references(p. [193]-198) and index

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内容説明

This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indonesian data, the author examines four construction types which express what is often encoded by complements in other languages: juxtaposed clauses, material introduced by the discourse marker bahwa, serial verbs, and epistemic expressions with the suffix -nya. These four construction types offer no evidence to support complementation as a viable grammatical category in colloquial spoken Indonesian. Rather, they are best understood as emergent, discourse-level phenomena, arising from the interactive and communicative goals of language users. The lack of evidence for complementation in colloquial Indonesian reaffirms the need to understand linguistic structure as language-particular and diverse, and emphasizes the centrality of studying linguistic categories based on their actual occurrence in natural discourse.

目次

  • 1. Acknowledgments
  • 2. 1. Preliminaries
  • 3. 2. Juxtaposed clauses
  • 4. 3. Complementizers in context: An analysis of bahwa
  • 5. 4. Verbs in series
  • 6. 5. Epistemic - nya constructions
  • 7. 6. Conclusion
  • 8. References
  • 9. Appendices
  • 10. Name index
  • 11. Subject index

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