Descriptions of Indonesian usually take the clause as the starting point for analysing grammatical structure and rely on the notion of ellipsis to account for the way speakers actually use language in everyday conversational interaction. This study challenges the status of “clause” by investigating the structures actually used by Indonesian speakers in informal conversation and it demonstrates that the predicate, rather than the clause, plays a central role in the grammar of Indonesian conversation. The preponderance of predicates in the data that do not have explicit arguments suggests that this format is best viewed as the default. When a predicate is produced without overt arguments, reconstructing what arguments may have been elided is often ambiguous or indeterminate and seems to be irrelevant to speakers. An examination of turn-taking, overlap and incrementing in conversation also shows that predicates, rather than full clauses, are the grammatical format participants regularly orient to.

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谓语作为口语印尼语语法和互动的场所

印度尼西亚语的描述通常以从句作为分析语法结构的起点，并依靠省略号的概念来解释说话者在日常会话互动中实际使用语言的方式。本研究通过调查印度尼西亚语使用者在非正式对话中实际使用的结构来挑战“从句”的地位，它表明在印度尼西亚语会话的语法中，谓语而不是从句起着核心作用。数据中没有显式参数的谓词占优势，这表明最好将此格式视为默认格式。当谓词在没有明显论据的情况下产生时，重建哪些论据可能已被省略通常是模棱两可的或不确定的，并且似乎与说话者无关。轮流检查，