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Insubordination : Theoretical and Empirical Issues /

Insubordination : Theoretical and Empirical Issues / ed. by Karin Beijering, Gunther Kaltenböck, María Sol Sansiñena. - 1 online resource (VIII, 388 p.) - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 326 1861-4302 ; .

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Insubordination: Central issues and open questions -- 1. Sources and mechanisms -- 2. Insubordination and the contextually sensitive emergence of if-requests in Swedish and Finnish institutional talk-in-interaction -- 3. Adverbial semi-insubordination constructions in Swedish: Synchrony and diachrony -- 4. On illusory insubordination and semiinsubordination in Slavic: Independent infinitives, clause-initial particles and predicatives put to the test -- 5. Delimiting the class: A typology of English insubordination -- 6. Patterns of (in)dependence -- 7. Two constructions, one syntactic form: Perceptual prosodic differences between elliptical and independent clauses in Spanish -- 8. Does structural binding correlate with degrees of functional dependence? -- 9. Optative and evaluative que ‘that’ sentences in Spanish -- 10. When insubordination is an artefact (of sentence type theories) -- 11. Apparent insubordination as discourse patterns in French -- Index

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Insubordinate clauses present a challenge for grammatical analysis. This is owed to their unusual combination of subordinate structure with main clause use. This volume brings together a collection of articles on the form and function of insubordination in a range of languages – providing an up-to-date overview of current research on the topic.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9783110634129 9783110634204 9783110638288

10.1515/9783110638288 doi


Grammar, Comparative and general--Subordinate constructions.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

Discourse. Insubordination. Semantics. Syntax.

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