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Ordinary insubordination as transient discourse

Dwyer, Arienne M.
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Insubordination – the conventionalized use of morphologically non-finite forms as finite ones – is an ordinary syntactic event in synchronic spontaneous discourse; it is also an ordinary stage of the grammaticalization of non-finite clauses as finite ones. is chapter explores the morphosyntactic typology of insubordination and its ontogeny in Inner Asian Turko-Mongolic languages. In so doing, I clarify criterial features of insubordination. I also consider whether insubordination is a transient phenomenon as part of a larger process of grammaticalization, using a rich diachronic dataset from a half dozen Inner Asian languages.
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2016
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John Benjamins
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grammaticalization, turn-taking, Inner Asian languages, clause structure
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Dwyer, Arienne M. 2016. Ordinary insubordination as transient discourse. In Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe (eds). Insubordination. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 183–208.
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