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InsubordinationEdited by Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe
[Typological Studies in Language 115] 2016
► pp. 39–64
Chapter 2. On insubordination and cooptation
Bernd Heine | Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Gunther Kaltenböck | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Wien, Austria
The chapter is concerned more generally with what, following Evans (2007), we call insubordinated (or insubordinate) clauses, that is, with the conventionalized main clause use of what, prima facie, appear to be formally subordinate clauses. Insubordinated clauses are, as we argue here, information units that are coopted from a construction type [matrix clause – subordinate clause] where the matrix clause is implied but not formally expressed. Based on recent findings on discourse grammar analysis (Kaltenböck et al. 2011; Heine et al. 2013), three basic types of insubordinated clauses are distinguished and the nature of such clauses is accounted for with reference to the mechanism of cooptation from one domain of grammar to another.
Published online: 18 November 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.115.02hei
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.115.02hei
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