Article published in:
InsubordinationEdited by Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe
[Typological Studies in Language 115] 2016
► pp. 341–366
Chapter 13. Insubordination in interaction
The Cha’palaa counter-assertive
Simeon Floyd | Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen
In the Cha’palaa language of Ecuador the main-clause use of the otherwise non-finite morpheme -ba can be accounted for by a specific interactive practice: the ‘counter-assertion’ of statement or implicature of a previous conversational turn. Attention to the ways in which different constructions are deployed in such recurrent conversational contexts reveals a plausible account for how this type of dependent clause has come to be one of the options for finite clauses. After giving some background on Cha’palaa and placing ba clauses within a larger ecology of insubordination constructions in the language, this chapter uses examples from a video corpus of informal conversation to illustrate how interactive data provides answers that may otherwise be elusive for understanding how the different grammatical options for Cha’palaa finite verb constructions have been structured by insubordination.
Published online: 18 November 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.115.13flo
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.115.13flo
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