11.1 Prefabricated Chunks
11.1.1 Examples from the seminar
also prefabs, lexical chunks, lexical bundles, …
- one of the most
- I just wanted to
- I was gonna
- the fact that the
11.1.2 Prefabs and the lexicon
Automation
- phonetic reduction (cf. also Bybee & Scheibman (1999))
Constituency
- pauses tend occur after frequent chunks rather than at syntactic boundaries
- are learned, and accessed as units
Source for lexicalization and grammaticalization
- Discourse markers
- Tense and aspect markers
11.1.3 Discourse markers
A large subset of linguistic structures exist for purposes other than exchanging information
- on the one hand
- after all
- for the first time
- nevertheless
11.1.4 Common Functions
- turn taking:
- …, right? (turn releasing)
- yeah right but (turn yielding)
- uhm well, you know (turn holding)
- yes, oh my, (signalling attention)
- establishing a common point of view
- you know what I’m saying
- amirite?
- deixis
- therefore
- in the last section
- in conclusion
- as mentioned above
- as you’ll see
References
Bybee, Joan & Joanne Scheibman. 1999. The effect of usage on degrees of constituency: The reduction of don’t in English. Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter 37(4). 575–596.