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In:Insubordination
Edited by Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe
[Typological Studies in Language 115] 2016
► pp. 171–182

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Chapter 7. Insubordination in the Tsezic Languages

ORCiD logo with link | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyUniversity of Bamberg
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 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyUniversity of Bamberg
Published online: 18 November 2016
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The Tsezic languages present a number of prima facie instances of insubordination, given current definitions of this phenomenon. For the purposes of this chapter, we base ourselves on the definition provided by Evans (2007: 367): “[Insubordination is] the conventionalized main clause use of what, on prima facie grounds, appear to be formally subordinate clauses.” While some instances of insubordination in Tsezic languages seem to illustrate typical instances, others present synchronic and diachronic issues that probe the phenomenon’s boundaries.
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