„dAs is ja völliger BLÖDsinn;“ - Konstruktionen der gesprochenen Sprache mit der Abtönungspartikel ‚ja‘

Multimodal Construction Grammar issues are Construction Grammar issues

“…However, if a construction is thought of as a pairing of form and meaning, elements of meaningincluding scopeshould also be taken into account in determining the 'size' of a construction. An example of this would be Meer's (2012) analysis of constructions with the downtoning particle ja in German, in which she does not just consider the particle as a construction, but rather proposes to think of highly schematic constructions covering the entire scope of the particle (often an entire clause), with the particle itself being the only specified lexical element in the construction. Defining the constructions in this way means that actually, there is no temporal discrepancy at all given the corresponding scope, even if the timing of the verbal and non-verbal elements is not identical.…”