S. Gries

Clarifying when-constructions: Conversation, morphosyntax, lexicon, and mode and their interactions in language use

The present study investigates clarifying when-constructions (e.g., when I say more, I don’t mean that we should consume more, but really it’s about creating a rich life) in a sample of 971 examples from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. In this construction, a phrase or clause from a different or the same t...