@incollection{Kornfeld2023, author = {Laurenz Kornfeld}, title = {Syntactic complexity of sancioning turns across European languages}, series = {10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), 18-21 July, 2023, Mannheim, Germany}, editor = {Beata TrawiƄski and Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost and J{\"o}rg Zinken}, publisher = {IDS-Verlag}, address = {Mannheim}, isbn = {978-3-937241-96-8}, doi = {10.14618/f8rt-m155}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-122877}, pages = {262 -- 263}, year = {2023}, abstract = {In this presentation I show first results from an ongoing study about syntactic complexity of sanctioning turns in spoken language. This study is part of a larger project on sanctioning of misconduct in social interaction in different European languages (English, German, Italian and Polish). For the study I use video recordings of different everyday settings (family breakfasts, board game interactions and car rides) with three or four participants. These data come from the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (Kornfeld/K{\"u}ttner/Zinken 2023; K{\"u}ttner et al. submitted). I focus on sanctioning turns with more than one turn-constructional unit (see among others for TCUs: Sacks/Schegloff/Jefferson 1974; Clayman 2013). The study asks how often TCUs are linked to each other in the different languages, for what function, and how language diversity enters into this. Note that complex sanctioning turns do not always come as complex sentences.}, language = {en} }