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This article explores the usage patterns of an open personal construction in Finnish, namely the so-called zero-person construction in naturally occurring conversational discourse, and provides a bottom-up model of these patterns. The aims of this article are twofold. Firstly, the article attempts to shed more light on the functional groupings of zero-person constructions in conversational discourse. Secondly, it tests the suitability of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) in categorizing a linguistic construction on the basis of its semantico-grammatical and contextual features. Based on the MCA, three distinct groups of zero-person constructions are identified and examined in detail, namely the Narrative, Reactive and Evaluative zero-person constructions. At the macro-level, the article shows the advantages of a usage-based approach combining both quantitative and qualitative methods on the study of interaction and personal constructions. At the micro-level, it offers an example of the use of the MCA in examining a syntactic construction based on its semantico-grammatical and discourse features.

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ABSTRACT
1. Introduction
2. Finnish person system and the zero person
3. Corpus and methods
3.1. Data: Arkisyn
3.2. Method: Multiple Correspondence Analysis
3.3. Variables and annotation
4. Results
4.1. The big picture
4.2. Group 1: Narrative zero-person constructions
4.3. Group 2: Reactive zero-person constructions
4.4. Group 3: Evaluative zero-person constructions
5. Conclusions
APPENDIX
DATA SOURCE
References

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저자

• Mikael Varjo [ University of Turku ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  Corpus Linguistics Research

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  2465-812X

• 수록기간

  2015~2025

• 십진분류

  KDC 701 DDC 410