Configurazioni di discorso. Un’unità di analisi del parlato L2

This study takes into account a corpus of Italian spoken by non-natives, assembled at Department of Linguistics of Roma Tre University (Co.Cer.It). To identify peculiar phenomena of our Corpus, G.A.R.S. grids have been sistematically applied to previously carefully transcribed native-non native interactions in Italian. The use of such an instrument allows us to bi-dimensionally (both on the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes) represent phenomena in spoken texts that a) illustrate the way in which spoken language is produced; b) help to identify discourse configuration types usually associated to specific grammatical functions that neither descriptive nor normative grammars take into consideration. Examples of these phenomena will be discussed. Attention will be also given to advantages of our analysis and to problems raising when dealing with a large corpus of Italian spoken by non natives.