The language of conversation is incremental and collaborative, produced in the context of the physical, social, and cognitive demands of real time face-to-face
interaction. The linguistic structures that we may be accustomed to studying in written or planned discourse often take on very different characteristics when
produced during natural conversation.

This study examines one type of grammatical organization, the transitive clause. It investigates how transitive clauses are played out in the context of Cirebon Javanese conversation and demonstrates
that grammatical clause structure does not exist independently of the meaning that is interactionally constructed by conversationalists.