What do speakers do with predicate nominal constructions in English conversation?
Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk
Published online on November 18, 2025
Abstract
Discourse Studies, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 333-352, April 2026.
In the tradition of Interactional Linguistics, we show how speakers make use of Predicate Nominal Constructions (PNCs) in American English conversation. We first provide a grammatical profile of PNCs as a highly frequent type of low-transitive clause in ...
In the tradition of Interactional Linguistics, we show how speakers make use of Predicate Nominal Constructions (PNCs) in American English conversation. We first provide a grammatical profile of PNCs as a highly frequent type of low-transitive clause in ...