This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn initiating elements in everyday conversations. By combining a pragmatic formal theory with a formal syntax model, this book serves as a guide to the problems of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of spoken everyday talk and as a handbook on conversational analysis.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Conversational Analysis
Chapter 2: Radical Minimalism, Conversational Analysis, and Compositionality:
Demonstrated on wh-Movement
Chapter 3: Semantic Considerations on Adverbials Syntax, Negation, Modality
and Evidentiality
Chapter 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)
Peter Kosta is professor emeritus of Slavic linguistics at the University of Potsdam.
