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    Relative-clause increments and the management of reference: A multimodal analysis of French talk-in-interaction
    (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020) ;
    In this paper we propose a reanalysis of relative clauses in French talk-in-interaction as part of “grammar for talk implementing action” (Schegloff, 1996:p.113). Our analytic focus is on relative clauses produced as increments, i.e., cases where the [main clause+relative clause] pattern emerges gradually, in response to interactional contingencies such as co-participants’ verbal and embodied conduct. We identify two recurrent interactional purposes that speakers accomplish by means of such self-incremented relative clauses: referential repair, ensuing from a recipient’s verbal and/or embodied display of trouble; referential elaboration, ensuing from a recipient’s verbal and/or embodied display of referent recognition. The findings challenge the notion of relative clauses as subordinate clauses, and extend our understanding of the emergent nature of grammar to the field of complex syntax.
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    A cross-linguistic perspective on grammar and negative epistemics in talk-in-interaction
    (2016-12-1)
    Lindström, Jan
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    Maschler, Yael
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    In this introduction to the special issue on ‘Grammar and negative epistemics in talk-in-interaction’ we discuss the current state of research on the use of negative mental verb constructions such as I don’t know, I don’t understand, I don’t remember in social interaction. We scrutinize, in a cross-linguistic perspective, the grammatical and interactional features that emerge from existing research in the field, and spell out the specific contribution of the studies collected in this issue. We discuss how the cumulative evidence provided by these studies across a set of different languages, several of which are typologically unrelated, contributes to studies of talk-in-interaction and to the newly emerging field of Pragmatic Typology. We argue that the findings point to universal interactional motivations for the grammatical properties and the grammaticization of the constructions studied, and suggest that these motivations arise out of the basic requirements for intersubjectivity in social interaction.