句子成分的后置与话轮交替机制中的话轮后续手段

Postposed sentential constituents as post-completion devices in conversational turn-taking

本文指出句子成分后置可以部分地归结于话轮替换机制。特别是句子后置成分在话轮交替相关处起到一种话轮延续的作用。作为话轮后续手段,在粤语口语语料库中,可以发现句子后置成分有78%是处于或紧靠话轮交替相关处。这说明作为语法现象的词序和话轮交替结构之间有着极其密切的关系。

This paper puts forward a new perspective on ‘inverted sentences ’ in Chinese,i.e.sentences with constituents postposed to the end.It is found that the postponing of sentence constituents can be partly explained in terms of conversational turn-taking.In particular,postposed constituents often have the function of extending a turn beyond a transition relevance place.As such they are ‘post-completion devices’.From a corpus of spoken Cantonese 250 sentences were studied in their sequential contexts.It was found that 78 % of the time postposed sentential constituents co-occurred with,or was closely followed by,a turn-transition relevance place.This provides evidence for a strong relationship between word order as a grammatical phenomenon and the structure of conversational turn-taking.