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
(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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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