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Abstract

Interactional research into storytelling has focused on the telling, the sequential organization of the narration in the turn-at-talk, while research on lists looks at their structure in interaction. The present study contributes to the scarce work on telling-endings and on generalized list completers by focusing on the grammaticalized Catalan final particle . Drawing from a vast corpus of oral narrations in Catalan (58 hours), I show how speakers use in narrations to end a series of actions and progress to the rest of the story. In lists, speakers employ to put an end to an enumeration of similarly related items, to indicate that no more may be added. Both ending functions are achieved due to a pragmatic resignification of the core meanings of the components of . The linking conjunction facilitates a sequential connection to the last element of the series, and the functional use of as an interjection contributes in conveying an ending. Consequently, appears in structurally similar contexts such as tellings and lists.

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Keywords: Catalan ; enumeration ; storytelling ; list ; final particles
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