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Publication details [#35169]

Lerner, Gene H. 1991. On the syntax of sentences-in-progress. Language in Society 20 (3) : 441–458.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | interaction | sentence, processing of | turn-taking | utterance

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that the compound turn-constructional unit format, traditionally a resource for turn-taking, can be used to complete another participants' utterance in progress, thus allowing two speakers to jointly construct a single sentence.