Dislocation or afterthought? : a conversation analytic account of incremental sentences in Chinese

• Main Author: Luke, Kang-Kwong.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97949; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13236
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

For almost 80 years, Chinese linguists have been fascinated by sentences like “Pijiu ba, he dianr!” (“Beer, I'll have some!”), which look superficially like a jumbled-up version of “normal-order sentences.” Numerous accounts have been proposed to explain their structure and meaning, but no cons...