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Based on the investigation of the joint production of lists in spoken Spanish, this contribution advocates for a stronger theoretical consideration of sequential and embodied aspects as part of constructional knowledge in CxG. By analyzing video recorded conversations, we examine how interlocutors co-construct lists in real-time. Lists conventionally consist of a three-component sequence – onset, enumeration (body), and coda. Our data shows that interactants orient to these components beyond morphosyntactic features and deploy shared knowledge of semanto-syntactic, sequential, turn-constructional, prosodic, and bodily features. By closely monitoring and coordination each other’s situated multimodal resources, interactants recognize emergent action spaces that allow them to co-construct lists smoothly at different sequential positions and thereby accomplish a variety of social actions. We conclude that the highly emergent yet robust character of co-constructed lists provides a powerful example for how interactional creativity leads to constructional flexibility, yet warrants pattern stability at the same time.

This article focuses on the practice of listing in Talk-in-Interaction. Lists are frequently used in spoken language as a discursive resource and can be considered as a universal, cross-lingual practice for structuring ideas. As such, they have been given attention in several fields of linguistics, mainly in intonation research, conversation analysis and interactional linguistics. However, the role of gestures and other physical forms of expression in listing has been mostly disregarded so far. For this reason, we attempt to cast light on the form and function of gestures and other bodily resources that are embedded in this practice. We argue that lists are multimodal and that bodily resources play a major role in establishing the format and in organizing the interaction. In order to do so, we use a broad collection of examples from different sources in French, Italian and Spanish.

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Este trabajo avanza en la explicación del uso productivo de vuestro en el español de Cuzco (Perú) sobre la base de nuevos datos de trabajo de campo. Demostramos su significado exclusivamente plural y su integración en el paradigma gramatical de ustedes. Analizamos su valor discursivo de contraste grupal y su valor socioindexical de buena formación. Finalmente, planteamos propuestas provisionales sobre tres aspectos: (1) la extensión diatópica del fenómeno en otras áreas del espacio andino y extra-andino; (2) su evolución diacrónica a partir de las combinaciones de los paradigmas de vosotros y ustedes; y (3) la actuación indirecta del contacto lingüístico, considerando el uso contrastivo de vuestro como una estrategia de compensación para categorías comunicativas relevantes regionalmente, gramaticalizadas en el quechua sureño.