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T1  - Combining clauses in interaction. The "voi olla että" '(it) may be that' utterance in Finnish. 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/156239 
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A1  - Niemi, Jarkko 
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Y1  - 2015 
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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... 
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KW  - 6121 Languages; Clause combining; Subordination; Conversation analysis; FINNISH; CONVERSATION; ORGANIZATION; KNOWLEDGE; ENGLISH; STANCE; TALK 
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