The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation
The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation
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but 作为英语会话中最后一个助词的语法化
DOI：
10.1075/tsl.80.09mul
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发表时间：
2008
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S. Thompson
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作者：
J. Mulder;S. Thompson
我们在美国英语口语语料库和澳大利亚英语口语语料库中考察了话轮末尾的行为，提出了两个假设。首先，But的行为可以被建模为从韵律单元的开头到韵律单元的末尾语篇助词的一个连续体。其次，随着But在这个连续体中的“移动”，它的会话功能发生了变化，这与语法化文献中所描述的是一致的。在我们的美国和澳大利亚的语料中，无论是韵律的还是顺序的，说话者都给出了证据，认为另一个人之前的但结束的话语已经结束了，但留下了一个“悬而未决”的含义。然而，我们的澳大利亚数据提供了相当多的证据，证明澳大利亚英语中的“期末”已经成为标记对比内容的“完全发展”的韵尾助词。
We examine the behavior of turn-final but in a corpus of spoken American and Australian English, proposing two hypotheses. First, the behavior of but can be modeled as a continuum from a prosodic-unit-initial to a prosodicunit-final discourse particle. Second, as but “moves” along this continuum, its conversational function changes, in a way that is consistent with what has been described in the grammaticization literature.In both our American and Australian data, both prosodically and sequentially, speakers give evidence of taking another’s prior but -ending utterance as having been finished, but with an implication left “hanging”. However, our Australian data provide considerable evidence of Australian English “final but ” having become a “fully-developed” final particle marking contrastive content.