Turn Initiating Elements in Everyday Conversations

Peter Kosta is professor emeritus of Slavic linguistics at the University of Potsdam.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Conversational AnalysisChapter 2: Radical Minimalism, Conversational Analysis, and Compositionality: Demonstrated on wh-MovementChapter 3: Semantic Considerations on Adverbials Syntax, Negation, Modality and EvidentialityChapter 4: Discursive and Syntactic Properties of the Czech Interjectional Particle jé in Dialogues of Fictive Literary Parallel-Texts and in Casual Every-Day Talks (As Demonstrated on the Czech National Corpus)

This book fills a much-underexplored niche by providing an original perspective on the grammatical mechanisms involved in turn-taking in casual conversation and the underlying formal systematicity of everyday linguistic interaction. Its novel approach to the object of study, grounded on conversational analysis as much as on generative syntax, make this a valuable resource for a wide readership.