Ritva Laury

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ritva Laury plays a role.

(Non)referentiality in Conversation

Edited by Michael C. Ewing and Ritva Laury

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 344] 2024. v, 209 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction

Edited by Jan K. 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
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Uralic languages
Laury, Ritva 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
Laury, Ritva, Michael C. Ewing and Sandra A. Thompson 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
Laury, Ritva 2021 Definitely indefinite: Negotiating intersubjective common ground in everyday interaction in FinnishIntersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction, Lindström, Jan K., Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 41–60 | 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
Laury, Ritva, Tsuyoshi Ono and Ryoko Suzuki 2021 Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interactionUsage-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
Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki 2021 On the notion of unit in the study of human languagesUsage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter
Sorjonen, Marja-Leena, Anssi Peräkylä, Ritva Laury and Jan K. Lindström 2021 Intersubjectivity in action: An introductionIntersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction, Lindström, Jan K., Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 1–22 | 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
Laury, Ritva and Tsuyoshi Ono 2020 Chapter 1. IntroductionFixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action, Laury, Ritva and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
Laury, Ritva, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Janica Rauma 2020 Chapter 6. When an expression becomes fixed: mä ajattelin että ‘I thought that’ in spoken FinnishFixed 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
Suomalainen, Karita, Anna Vatanen and Ritva Laury 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
Vatanen, Anna, Karita Suomalainen and Ritva Laury 2020 Chapter 7. The Finnish projector phrase se että as a fixed expressionFixed 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
Laury, Ritva, Tsuyoshi Ono and Ryoko Suzuki 2019 Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interactionUsage-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
Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki 2019 On the notion of unit in the study of human languagesUsage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 245–253 | Introduction
Laury, Ritva and Tsuyoshi Ono 2014 The limits of grammar: Clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversationApproaches 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
Laury, Ritva, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen 2014 IntroductionApproaches to grammar for interactional linguistics, Laury, Ritva, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 435–452 | Article
Koivisto, Aino, Ritva Laury and Eeva-Leena Seppänen 2011 Syntactic and actional characteristics of Finnish että-clausesSubordination 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
Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki 2011 IntroductionSubordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
Laury, Ritva and Shigeko Okamoto 2011 Teyuuka and I mean as pragmatic parentheticals in Japanese and EnglishSubordination 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
Laury, Ritva 2009 DefinitenessGrammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 50–65 | 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
Laury, Ritva and Sandra A. Thompson 2008 IntroductionCrosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. ix–xiv | Miscellaneous
Seppänen, Eeva-Leena and Ritva Laury 2007 Complement clauses as turn continuations: The Finnish et(tä)-clauseTurn 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
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
Laury, Ritva 2001 DefinitenessHandbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–18 | 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