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Turn Initiating Elements in Everyday Conversations

Conversational Analysis and Radical Minimalism at the Syntax-Semantic In
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This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn initiating elements in everyday conversations. By combining a pragmatic formal theory with a formal syntax model, this book serves as a guide to the problems of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of spoken everyday talk and as a handbook on conversational analysis.
Peter Kosta is professor emeritus of Slavic linguistics at the University of Potsdam.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Conversational Analysis Chapter 2: Radical Minimalism, Conversational Analysis, and Compositionality: Demonstrated on wh-Movement Chapter 3: Semantic Considerations on Adverbials Syntax, Negation, Modality and Evidentiality Chapter 4: Discursive and Syntactic Properties of the Czech Interjectional Particle je in Dialogues of Fictive Literary Parallel-Texts and in Casual Every-Day Talks (As Demonstrated on the Czech National Corpus)
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