Abstract

This article presents a study of List Constructions in a corpus of spoken Italian, in particular those that end with a general extender, a functional class of expressions.They widen the scope and the meaning of what has been previously said: for example, or something / and everything / and things /and stuff (like that), etcetera. The main aim is to show that List Constructions exhibit some basic features that are particularly suited to the online process of spoken communication, although they also constitute a specialised means of text progression to give order to objects and concepts, which resembles the use of written catalogues.

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