(Non)referentiality in Conversation
Edited by Michael C. Ewing and Ritva Laury
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 344] 2024. v, 201 pp. + index
Ritva Laury
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ritva Laury plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction
Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 326] 2021. vi, 437 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
[Benjamins Current Topics, 114] 2021. v, 204 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action
Edited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 315] 2020. v, 238 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
Special issue of Studies in Language 43:2 (2019) vi, 253 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics
Edited by Ritva Laury, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Special issue of Pragmatics 24:3 (2014) ca. 125 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 24] 2011. viii, 244 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions
Edited by Ritva Laury
[Typological Studies in Language, 80] 2008. xiv, 253 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish
Ritva Laury
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 7] 1997. viii, 294 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Uralic languages
Articles
2024 Chapter 4. The (non)referentiality of the word raha ‘money’ in Finnish conversation (Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. and Ritva Laury (eds.), pp. 56–79 | Chapter
This chapter concerns the use of the word raha ‘money’ in Finnish everyday conversation. The main findings are that raha is most often used non-referentially in singular form in predications where only the category of money is at issue. When the word is used to create referential mentions of… read more
2024 Chapter 1. Toward the interactional relevance of (non)referentiality (Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. and Ritva Laury (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
2021 Definitely indefinite: Negotiating intersubjective common ground in everyday interaction in Finnish Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction, Lindström, Jan, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 41 ff. | Chapter
This chapter concerns expressions which seem internally contradictory because they consist of both a recognitional and a non-recognitional element. They contain both the Finnish demonstrative se ‘that, the’, a recognitional, as in se ihminen ‘that/the person’, and one of the indefinite… read more
2021 Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 123–160 | Chapter
This paper focuses on ‘clause’, a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese, two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the basis of which this structural unit has been most… read more
2021 On the notion of unit in the study of human languages Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter
2021 Intersubjectivity in action: An introduction Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction, Lindström, Jan, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Chapter
2020 Chapter 3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella ‘think’ and tietää ‘know’ in Finnish talk-in-interaction Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action, Maschler, Yael, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik (eds.), pp. 55–86 | Chapter
Our paper concerns two Finnish cognitive verbs, ajatella ‘think’, and tietää ‘know’. We show that both verbs are most likely to occur in the first person singular form but behave differently with respect to polarity: tietää occurs most commonly in the negated form (56%), while ajatella is only… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Introduction Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action, Laury, Ritva and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 6. When an expression becomes fixed: mä ajattelin että ‘I thought that’ in spoken Finnish Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action, Laury, Ritva and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 133–166 | Chapter
This chapter concerns the first person past tense form of the verb ajatella ‘to think’ as a semi-fixed expression in spoken Finnish. We examine this expression in present-day conversation and in older dialect interviews, focusing on its interactional functions, the types of complements it takes,… read more
2020 Chapter 2. The Finnish se että initiated expressions: NPs or not? The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction, Ono, Tsuyoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 11–42 | Chapter
This paper concerns the grammatical category of Finnish expressions initiated with se että (lit. ‘it that’). In earlier studies based on written data, they have been considered clausal NPs functioning as subjects, objects and complements. In our spoken data, both present-day and older, se että… read more
2020 Chapter 7. The Finnish projector phrase se että as a fixed expression Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action, Laury, Ritva and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 167–202 | Chapter
This chapter shows that the Finnish expression se että ‘it (is) that’, consisting of a demonstrative followed by a complementizer, is a fixed projective element in talk-in-interaction both on its own and with collocating elements. It shares features with projector phrases identified for other… read more
2019 Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 364–401 | Article
This paper focuses on ‘clause’, a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese, two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the basis of which this structural unit has been most… read more
2019 On the notion of unit in the study of human languages Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 245–253 | Introduction
2014 The limits of grammar: Clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics, Laury, Ritva, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 561–592 | Article
Our paper concerns the grammar of clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation. We consider the patterns of clause combining in our data and focus on the verbal and non-verbal cues which allow participants to determine whether, after the end of a clause-sized unit, the turn will end or… read more
2014 Introduction Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics, Laury, Ritva, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 435–452 | Article
2011 Syntactic and actional characteristics of Finnish että-clauses Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 69–102 | Article
This article examines the Finnish että as a complementizer and as an initial and final particle in conversation. The article shows that että is not a subordinator either syntactically or actionally. Instead, the particle että, as well as the formulaic phrases (complement-taking constructions) it is… read more
2011 Introduction Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2011 Teyuuka and I mean as pragmatic parentheticals in Japanese and English Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 209–238 | Article
The English I mean and the Japanese teyuuka differ syntactically and semantically, but they have similar pragmatized uses. Both verbs, mean and yuu, function as regular verbs in main clauses and also as part of formulaic expressions which indicate a modal meaning with respect to an utterance, or… read more
2009 Definiteness Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 50–65 | Article
2008 Clause combining, interaction, evidentiality, participation structure, and the conjunction-particle continuum: The Finnish että Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. 153–178 | Article
This paper concerns the use of the Finnish particle/conjunction et(tä) in ordinary conversation. Traditionally, että has been considered a complementizer, but we question the description of että-clauses as complements. We show that uses of että range from ones where it serves as a clause linker to… read more
2008 Introduction Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. ix–xiv | Miscellaneous
2007 Complement clauses as turn continuations: The Finnish et(tä)-clause Turn continuation in cross-linguistic perspective, Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 553–572 | Article
This paper examines the use of että-clauses in Finnish everyday conversation for extending a speaker’s turn after a possible point of turn completion for the purpose of pursuing uptake from a turn recipient. Although että-clauses are considered complements in most grammatical descriptions of… read more
2006 Oblique mentions of human referents in Finnish conversation: The effects of prominence in discourse and grammar Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Lyle Campbell (eds.), pp. 153–171 | Article
On the basis of empirical evidence it has been shown that mentions of human referents manifest features of prominence on the level of both discourse and grammar. This is so because they tend to be topical and agentive and are consequently likely to appear in core grammatical roles, especially in… read more
2001 Definiteness Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2001 Definiteness and reflexivity: Indexing socially shared experience Pragmatics 11:4, pp. 401–420 | Article
This paper examines the use of definite and indefinite noun phrases in everyday conversations in Finnish and English to establish meaning and to alter and build context in interaction. The paper shows that participants in conversation use the formal contrast between definite and indefinite NPs not… read more
1995 On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken Finnish Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 239 ff. | Article