Chapter published in:
Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of actionEdited by Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 32] 2020
► pp. 87–126
Chapter 4The insubordinate – subordinate continuum
Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax
This chapter examines the continuum
stretching between Hebrew syntactically integrated
and unintegrated (‘insubordinate’)
she-‘that/which/who’-clauses
produced following final/continuing intonation
contours in naturally-occurring interaction. Leaving
aside modal insubordinate
she-clauses, I show that in all of
these cases she- ties back to an
immediately prior stretch of interaction – verbal
and/or embodied – and projects an elaboration or
evaluation of it, without much concern about which
particular type of complex construction – relative,
complement, or adverbial (if any) – is being
created. The data suggest that rather than viewing
insubordinate clauses as imperfect realizations of
the canonical ‘subordinate’ variety resulting from
the disintegration of complex syntactic patterns,
canonical, syntactically integrated varieties of
Hebrew relative, complement, and adverbial clauses
may be regarded as grammaticizations from
syntactically less integrated varieties.
Keywords: subordination, insubordination, Hebrew, grammaticization, prosody
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data and overview
- 3.Evaluative insubordinate she-clauses
- 4.Elaborative insubordinate
she-clauses
- 4.1Elaborative insubordinate
she-clauses in non-appeal
intonation contours
- 4.1.1Elaborating an NP
- 4.1.2Elaborating a clause
- 4.1.3Elaborating a gesture
- 4.2Elaborative she-clauses
in appeal intonation
- 4.2.1Requesting elaboration
- 4.2.1Requesting confirmation of candidate elaborations
- 4.1Elaborative insubordinate
she-clauses in non-appeal
intonation contours
- 5.Discussion and conclusion
-
Notes -
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Published online: 17 February 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.32.04mas
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.32.04mas
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