ISBN9789027206961 hardcover alkaline paper
9027206961 hardcover alkaline paper
9789027266545 electronic book
Author/Editoredited by Nicholas Evans, Honoré Watanabe.
Note (General)"The present volume, then, grows out of a symposium, 'Dynamics of Insubordination', organised by the present editors on 25-28 October 2012, in Tokyo, at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)."--Preface.
The chapters are a selection of reviewed and revised papers, which were presented at the symposium.
Note (Content)The phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures, or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses. Long marginalised as uncomfortable exceptions, insubordinated clause phenomena turn out to be surprisingly widespread, and provide a vital empirical testing ground for various central theoretical issues in current linguistics - the interplay of langue and parole, the emergence of structure, the question of where productive syntactic rules give way to constructions, the role of prosody in language change, and the question of how far grammars are produced by isolated speakers as opposed to being collaboratively constructed in dialogue. This volume - the first book-length treatment on the topic - assembles studies of languages on all continents, by scholars who bring a range of approaches to bear on the topic, from historical linguistics to corpus studies to typology to conversational analysis.
Note (Bibliography)Includes bibliographical references and index.