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Finding a Place for Body Movement in Grammar

Pages 22-25 | Published online: 09 Mar 2018
 

ABSTRACT

Keevallik’s impressive survey of how body movements affect grammatical choices is a timely reminder that language use in social interaction does not occur in a vacuum. Yet although body movements can be intercalated in complex ways with the grammatical structure of utterances, I argue here that they are not part of grammar in a strict sense of the word. In “composite” utterances they fill slots that grammatical structures create, without being grammatical elements themselves.

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