The Finnish tail construction as a first mention

IF 0.5 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Katri Priiki
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Abstract

Abstract This article examines the Finnish tail construction (right dislocation) used as a first mention of a referent and the variation of the demonstrative pronouns tämä ‘this’, tuo ‘that’, and se ‘it’ in the construction. Many previous studies have suggested that tail construction (TC) referents are highly active and thus already mentioned and salient in a conversation. However, in Finnish, the TC may introduce new referents into a conversation, and this article provides an empirical analysis of how and why this is done. First-mention TCs are often evaluations or questions in which the proposition links the utterance to the preceding context. When presenting new information, the TC allows the speaker to present a potentially lengthy lexical definition of a new referent at the end of the utterance, avoiding the additional emphatic meanings or unwanted implications a simply inverted word order might create.
芬兰尾部结构
摘要:本文考察了芬兰语作为指称物首提的尾结构(右错位),以及指示代词tämä“This”、两个“that”和se“it”在该结构中的变化。许多先前的研究表明,尾结构指称物是高度活跃的,因此在会话中已经被提及和突出。然而,在芬兰语中,TC可能会在会话中引入新的指称物,本文对如何以及为什么这样做提供了实证分析。先提式提问通常是评价或提问,其中命题将话语与前面的语境联系起来。当呈现新信息时,语序转换允许说话者在话语末尾呈现一个可能很长的新所指的词汇定义,避免了简单的颠倒词序可能产生的额外的强调意义或不必要的暗示。
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