Ritva Laury
Biographic Data
| ID | 742871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ritva Laury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ritva |
| FAMILY NAME | Laury |
| SIGNATURE | LAURY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2808-6523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Predicating without a lexical verb
Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish
The article concerns relative clause constructions and their main clauses in Estonian and Finnish conversation. The study shows that copula clauses and existential clauses predominate in the corpus data: these two clause types accounted for more than half of the main clauses. Such main clauses serve simply to introduce a referent which is then predicated upon in the relative clause and is likely to be subsequently discussed in the conversation. I…
Insubordinate relative clauses in Finnish – old and new
This article concerns insubordination, the use of clause types ordinarily considered subordinate without main clauses (Evans 2007). We study the use of insubordinate relative clauses (RCs) in two corpora, the Arkisyn corpus of contemporary Finnish conversation and the Agricola corpus from the 16th century. Our main findings are that the construction is put to very similar uses in the two corpora, but that it is more common in the newer corpus. We…
Complement clauses as turn continuations
This paper examines the use of että -clauses in Finnish everyday conversation for extending a speaker’s turn after a possible point of turn completion for the purpose of pursuing uptake from a turn recipient. Although että -clauses are considered complements in most grammatical descriptions of Finnish, the paper questions their status as subordinate clauses. We show that they nevertheless could be considered to function as increments, as either E…
Definiteness and reflexivity
This paper examines the use of definite and indefinite noun phrases in everyday conversations in Finnish and English to establish meaning and to alter and build context in interaction. The paper shows that participants in conversation use the formal contrast between definite and indefinite NPs not only to express identifiability and non-identifiability of the referent to their addressees, but that they also use it dynamically to make claims about…
Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction
This paper focuses on ‘clause’, a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese, two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the basis of which this structural unit has been most typically discussed. We first examine how structural units including the clause have been discussed in the literature on Finnish and Japanese. We will then exami…
On the notion of unit in the study of human languages
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The Finnish verb repeat response
The interactional emergence of conditional clauses as directives
Disclaiming epistemic access with 'know' and 'remember' in Finnish
Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations
The limits of grammar
Our paper concerns the grammar of clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation. We consider the patterns of clause combining in our data and focus on the verbal and non-verbal cues which allow participants to determine whether, after the end of a clause-sized unit, the turn will end or continue with another clause-sized unit, resulting in a clause combination. We conclude that morphosyntax alone cannot account for the patterns found in o…
Taking a stance and getting on with it
This paper concerns a particular grammatical construction, extraposition, and its use for assessments at points of transition between activities and topics by speakers of Finnish in ordinary conversation. A basic assumption taken here is that “recurrent clausal constructions of a language are social action formats for that language” (Thompson 2006), and that grammatical constructions such as clause types are learned and therefore routinized respo…
Syntactically Non-Integrated Finnish Jos ‘If’-Conditional Clauses as Directives
This article concerns the use of independent jos ‘if’-clauses as directives (requests, proposals, and suggestions) in Finnish everyday conversation. It shows that clause types which are traditionally considered subordinate can be used without any main clauses and, thus, do not project further talk to follow in the same turn. Other participants respond to the directive without waiting for a subsequent main clause to be produced. The grammatical fo…
Subordination in conversation
Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining
The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination and coordination in a binary fashion. Connected to this idea is the nature of conjunctions, a topic treated in several articles here. Couched within th…
Studies of clause combining
"This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the panel on clause combining at the 6th International Pragmatics Conference at Lake Garda in July, 2005." --from the Introduction.
Clause combining, interaction, evidentiality, participation structure, and the conjunction-particle continuum
This paper concerns the use of the Finnish particle/conjunction et(tä) in ordinary conversation. Traditionally, että has been considered a complementizer, but we question the description of että -clauses as complements. We show that uses of että range from ones where it serves as a clause linker to clear particle uses, with no clear dividing line. In terms of their pragmatic function, though, the different uses of että are closer to each other: t…
Data is Data and Model is Model
Data is data and model is model: You don’t discard the data that doesn’t fit your model!* Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono We have read with great interest the article published by Frederick Newmeyer in a recent issue of Language (Newmeyer 2003). As discourse-functional grammarians, we feel compelled to respond to several of N’s arguments, and we also question the nature and use of data in the article. As in his previous publications (e.g. Newmeyer 1…
Demonstratives in Interaction
The Case of the Noun Phrase in the Finnish Adpositional Phrase
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetics and Phonological Universals (1998)
Reference and referent accessibility
On definiteness
1. Introduction 2. English articles: the research traditions 3. English article usage 4. A unified description of the English articles 5. Finnish: no articles 6. Finnish spesies 7. The status of definiteness in Finnish 8. English and Finnish contrasted 9. Wider perspectives References Indexes
Syntactically Non-Integrated Finnish Jos ‘If’-Conditional Clauses as Directives
This article concerns the use of independent jos ‘if’-clauses as directives (requests, proposals, and suggestions) in Finnish everyday conversation. It shows that clause types which are traditionally considered subordinate can be used without any main clauses and, thus, do not project further talk to follow in the same turn. Other participants respond to the directive without waiting for a subsequent main clause to be produced. The grammatical fo…
The interactional emergence of conditional clauses as directives
Disclaiming epistemic access with 'know' and 'remember' in Finnish
The Finnish verb repeat response
On definiteness
1. Introduction 2. English articles: the research traditions 3. English article usage 4. A unified description of the English articles 5. Finnish: no articles 6. Finnish spesies 7. The status of definiteness in Finnish 8. English and Finnish contrasted 9. Wider perspectives References Indexes
The Case of the Noun Phrase in the Finnish Adpositional Phrase
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetics and Phonological Universals (1998)
Reference and referent accessibility
Demonstratives in Interaction
Data is Data and Model is Model
Data is data and model is model: You don’t discard the data that doesn’t fit your model!* Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono We have read with great interest the article published by Frederick Newmeyer in a recent issue of Language (Newmeyer 2003). As discourse-functional grammarians, we feel compelled to respond to several of N’s arguments, and we also question the nature and use of data in the article. As in his previous publications (e.g. Newmeyer 1…
Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining
The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination and coordination in a binary fashion. Connected to this idea is the nature of conjunctions, a topic treated in several articles here. Couched within th…
Studies of clause combining
"This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the panel on clause combining at the 6th International Pragmatics Conference at Lake Garda in July, 2005." --from the Introduction.
Clause combining, interaction, evidentiality, participation structure, and the conjunction-particle continuum
This paper concerns the use of the Finnish particle/conjunction et(tä) in ordinary conversation. Traditionally, että has been considered a complementizer, but we question the description of että -clauses as complements. We show that uses of että range from ones where it serves as a clause linker to clear particle uses, with no clear dividing line. In terms of their pragmatic function, though, the different uses of että are closer to each other: t…
Subordination in conversation
Taking a stance and getting on with it
This paper concerns a particular grammatical construction, extraposition, and its use for assessments at points of transition between activities and topics by speakers of Finnish in ordinary conversation. A basic assumption taken here is that “recurrent clausal constructions of a language are social action formats for that language” (Thompson 2006), and that grammatical constructions such as clause types are learned and therefore routinized respo…
Syntactically Non-Integrated Finnish Jos ‘If’-Conditional Clauses as Directives
This article concerns the use of independent jos ‘if’-clauses as directives (requests, proposals, and suggestions) in Finnish everyday conversation. It shows that clause types which are traditionally considered subordinate can be used without any main clauses and, thus, do not project further talk to follow in the same turn. Other participants respond to the directive without waiting for a subsequent main clause to be produced. The grammatical fo…
Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations
The limits of grammar
Our paper concerns the grammar of clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation. We consider the patterns of clause combining in our data and focus on the verbal and non-verbal cues which allow participants to determine whether, after the end of a clause-sized unit, the turn will end or continue with another clause-sized unit, resulting in a clause combination. We conclude that morphosyntax alone cannot account for the patterns found in o…
The interactional emergence of conditional clauses as directives
Disclaiming epistemic access with 'know' and 'remember' in Finnish
The Finnish verb repeat response
Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction
This paper focuses on ‘clause’, a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese, two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the basis of which this structural unit has been most typically discussed. We first examine how structural units including the clause have been discussed in the literature on Finnish and Japanese. We will then exami…
On the notion of unit in the study of human languages
Preview this article: On the notion of unit in the study of human languages, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.00014.int-1.gif
Complement clauses as turn continuations
This paper examines the use of että -clauses in Finnish everyday conversation for extending a speaker’s turn after a possible point of turn completion for the purpose of pursuing uptake from a turn recipient. Although että -clauses are considered complements in most grammatical descriptions of Finnish, the paper questions their status as subordinate clauses. We show that they nevertheless could be considered to function as increments, as either E…
Definiteness and reflexivity
This paper examines the use of definite and indefinite noun phrases in everyday conversations in Finnish and English to establish meaning and to alter and build context in interaction. The paper shows that participants in conversation use the formal contrast between definite and indefinite NPs not only to express identifiability and non-identifiability of the referent to their addressees, but that they also use it dynamically to make claims about…
Insubordinate relative clauses in Finnish – old and new
This article concerns insubordination, the use of clause types ordinarily considered subordinate without main clauses (Evans 2007). We study the use of insubordinate relative clauses (RCs) in two corpora, the Arkisyn corpus of contemporary Finnish conversation and the Agricola corpus from the 16th century. Our main findings are that the construction is put to very similar uses in the two corpora, but that it is more common in the newer corpus. We…
Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish
The article concerns relative clause constructions and their main clauses in Estonian and Finnish conversation. The study shows that copula clauses and existential clauses predominate in the corpus data: these two clause types accounted for more than half of the main clauses. Such main clauses serve simply to introduce a referent which is then predicated upon in the relative clause and is likely to be subsequently discussed in the conversation. I…
Predicating without a lexical verb
Linguistics (21 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Conversation (10 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works)