The "mirror" of insubordination, Linguistics Seminar, SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2017-06-27

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This Linguistics Department seminar titled "The "mirror" of insubordination" was given by Tania Kuteva (Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf) on 13 June 2017 at SOAS University of London.
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Our major goal in this talk is to build a case for the existence of a morphosyntactic phenomenon across languages which "mirrors" the phenomenon of insubordination (Evans 2007), incoordination. Incoordination is a process which has as its starting point a complex coordinated sentence consisting of Clause 1 + coordinating connective ("but", "and") + Clause 2; it involves a mechanism underlying the use of the sequence coordinating connective + Clause 2 in contexts where Clause 1 is missing but pragmatically inferred. We will show that incoordination leads to change in status of the coordinating connective from conjunction to sentence particle.
References
Evans, Nicolas (2007). Insubordination and its uses. In Nikolaeva, Irina (ed.), Finiteness: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 366-431.
About the speaker
Tania Kuteva is a Full Professor of English Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and a Professorial Research Associate of SOAS, University of London. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Invited Scholar at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands, a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and an Alexander von Humboldt Visiting Professor at UCL and SOAS, University of London. Her main interests include grammaticalization, linguistic typology, language evolution and discourse grammar.