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Searching for Structure: The Problem of Complementation in Colloquial Indonesian Conversation (Studies in Discourse and Grammar) PDF

217 Pages·2003·2.266 MB·English
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by Robert Englebretson| 2003| 217 pages| 2.266| English

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This work 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.

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Author:Robert Englebretson
Publication Year:2003
ISBN:9789027296726
Pages:217
Language:English
File Size:2.266
Format:PDF
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