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Chapter 10. Insubordination in Japanese diachronically

  • Heiko Narrog
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Abstract

This chapter is designed to give an overview of insubordination in documented Japanese language history, that is, not including pre-history and reconstruction. While doing so, a number of important issues concerning insubordination are discussed, including borderline cases between insubordination and grammaticalization, types of subordinate clauses particularly prone to insubordination, the relationship between insubordination and inversion, the relationship between insubordination and register, and structural and semantic correlates of insubordination. I further propose to categorize insubordinate constructions in Japanese into ‘open insubordinates’, which invite very broad inference with respect to the information conveyed in the deleted main clause, and ‘closed insubordinates’, which have a fixed interpretation, and can be understood as conveying a conventional implicature.

Abstract

This chapter is designed to give an overview of insubordination in documented Japanese language history, that is, not including pre-history and reconstruction. While doing so, a number of important issues concerning insubordination are discussed, including borderline cases between insubordination and grammaticalization, types of subordinate clauses particularly prone to insubordination, the relationship between insubordination and inversion, the relationship between insubordination and register, and structural and semantic correlates of insubordination. I further propose to categorize insubordinate constructions in Japanese into ‘open insubordinates’, which invite very broad inference with respect to the information conveyed in the deleted main clause, and ‘closed insubordinates’, which have a fixed interpretation, and can be understood as conveying a conventional implicature.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Map ix
  5. Author affiliations xi
  6. Chapter 1. The dynamics of insubordination 1
  7. Chapter 2. On insubordination and cooptation 39
  8. Chapter 3. Running in the family 65
  9. Chapter 4. Independent si -clauses in Spanish 89
  10. Chapter 5. Revisiting the functional typology of insubordination 113
  11. Chapter 6. Insubordinated conditionals in spoken and non-spoken Italian 145
  12. Chapter 7. Insubordination in the Tsezic Languages 171
  13. Chapter 8. Ordinary insubordination as transient discourse 183
  14. Chapter 9. Insubordination and the establishment of genealogical relationship across Eurasia 209
  15. Chapter 10. Insubordination in Japanese diachronically 247
  16. Chapter 11. Insubordination in Aleut 283
  17. Chapter 12. Insubordination in Sliammon Salish 309
  18. Chapter 13. Insubordination in interaction 341
  19. Chapter 14. How fascinating! Insubordinate exclamations 367
  20. Chapter 15. Routes to insubordination 393
  21. Language Index 423
  22. Author Index 425
  23. Subject Index 429
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.115.10nar

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Map ix
  5. Author affiliations xi
  6. Chapter 1. The dynamics of insubordination 1
  7. Chapter 2. On insubordination and cooptation 39
  8. Chapter 3. Running in the family 65
  9. Chapter 4. Independent si -clauses in Spanish 89
  10. Chapter 5. Revisiting the functional typology of insubordination 113
  11. Chapter 6. Insubordinated conditionals in spoken and non-spoken Italian 145
  12. Chapter 7. Insubordination in the Tsezic Languages 171
  13. Chapter 8. Ordinary insubordination as transient discourse 183
  14. Chapter 9. Insubordination and the establishment of genealogical relationship across Eurasia 209
  15. Chapter 10. Insubordination in Japanese diachronically 247
  16. Chapter 11. Insubordination in Aleut 283
  17. Chapter 12. Insubordination in Sliammon Salish 309
  18. Chapter 13. Insubordination in interaction 341
  19. Chapter 14. How fascinating! Insubordinate exclamations 367
  20. Chapter 15. Routes to insubordination 393
  21. Language Index 423
  22. Author Index 425
  23. Subject Index 429
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