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This study shows how superficially similar word-order output in Swedish is differentiated by semantic-sequential attributes. The word-order pattern in question appears in sentences/clauses that are initiated with the finite verb: interrogatives, conditionals and declaratives. The explanatory tool used builds on Construction Grammar, extended with attributes that are sensitive to the sequential location of the verb-first utterance in real verbal interaction.
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The study offers an innovative analytic tool for studies of grammar in talk-in-interaction that want to combine insights from grammatical and interactional-sequential facts for an adequate account of constructions in real language use.
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This page is a summary of: On the place of turn and sequence in grammar, Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), September 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/prag.24.3.04lin.
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