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In our spoken data, both present-day and older, <jats:italic>se ett\u00e4<\/jats:italic> initiated expressions have a wider range of functions. We show that some <jats:italic>se ett\u00e4<\/jats:italic> expressions have characteristics of NPs, but others are unlike NPs in certain ways, concluding that the category of NP is not binary, but rather a continuum with fuzzy boundaries. We also show that <jats:italic>se ett\u00e4<\/jats:italic> has been grammaticized into a projector phrase which does not initiate complement clauses but rather functions as a sedimented formula in the service of interactional practices.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1075\/tsl.128.02suo","type":"book-chapter","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,23]],"date-time":"2020-06-23T10:10:27Z","timestamp":1592907027000},"page":"11-42","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Finnish <i>se ett\u00e4<\/i> initiated expressions"],"prefix":"10.1075","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1926-2284","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Karita","family":"Suomalainen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/05vghhr25","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Turku"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8236-657X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Anna","family":"Vatanen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/03yj89h83","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Oulu"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2808-6523","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ritva","family":"Laury","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/040af2s02","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Helsinki"}]}],"member":"1757","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"CIT0051","unstructured":"Arkisyn: A morphosyntactically coded database of conversational Finnish. 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