Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota

Kirjavainen, Minna; Nikolaev, Alexandre

Abstract

Even though hesitations (e.g., um/uh) were historically perceived as involuntary non-linguistic items (e.g., Maclay and Osgood 1959), more recently, a number of scholars have suggested that hesitations can behave like (a) lexical items (e.g., Clark & Fox Tree 2002), and (b) at least in some contexts and with some functions as grammatical items like suffixes/clitics (Kirjavainen, Crible & Beeching 2022; Tottie 2017). The current study contributes to this body of work and presents two spoken language corpus analyses (frequency analysis; network analysis) investigating the nature of the Finnish planning particle tota. Our results suggest that tota is more similar to grammatical items than lexical items.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 9, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Apr 11, 2023
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2022
• Deposit Date: Feb 22, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 22, 2023
• Journal: Pragmatics and Cognition
• Print ISSN: 0929-0907
• Electronic ISSN: 1569-9943
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 370-393
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21019.kir
• Keywords: History and Philosophy of Science, Behavioral Neuroscience, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, General Computer Science
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10475733
• Publisher URL: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/pc.21019.kir