Grammar and self-repair : retraction patterns in German and Swedish prepositional phrases

Title data

Birkner, Karin ; Henricson, Sofie ; Lindholm, Camilla ; Pfeiffer, Martin:
Grammar and self-repair : retraction patterns in German and Swedish prepositional phrases.
In: Journal of Pragmatics. Vol. 44 (2012) Issue 11 . - pp. 1413-1433.
ISSN 0378-2166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.06.003

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Abstract in another language

This article presents the results of a German–Swedish comparative study on retractions in self-repair within prepositional phrases. Retraction, i.e., when a speaker returns to an earlier point within an unfolding grammatical structure, is a common resource used by both German and Swedish speakers when completing such actions as substituting, deleting, inserting, or repeating parts of an utterance. However, this resource is not necessarily used in the same ways in German and Swedish. Typological differences in the languages, such as word order and morphosyntactic characteristics, can affect the pattern of retraction (cf. Fox et al., 2009a and Fox et al., 2010). This paper examines whether grammatical differences in German and Swedish influence the retraction patterns in these languages.

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Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	No
Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair Germanic Linguistics Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair Germanic Linguistics > Chair Germanic Linguistics - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karin Birkner Faculties
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	400 Language 400 Language > 400 Language 400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 430 German and related languages
Date Deposited:	13 Oct 2015 14:25
Last Modified:	13 Jul 2022 10:40
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/20139