TY - T1 - Combining clauses in interaction. The "voi olla että" '(it) may be that' utterance in Finnish. SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/156239 T3 - A1 - Niemi, Jarkko A2 - PB - Y1 - 2015 LA - eng AB - This study investigates the Finnish bipartite utterance that consists of a display of an epistemic stance by voi olla ‘(it) may be’ and a span of talk initiated by että ‘that’ following it. It is shown that in a sequence-initiating turn, the voi olla että ‘(it) may be that’ utterance conveys a lack of knowledge of a state of affairs. By contrast, in a responding turn, the voi olla että ‘(it) may be that’ utterance commonly cooperates with the preference displayed by the prior speaker's turn, and... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 6121 Languages; Clause combining; Subordination; Conversation analysis; FINNISH; CONVERSATION; ORGANIZATION; KNOWLEDGE; ENGLISH; STANCE; TALK N1 - PP - ER -