The insubordinate - subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax

Yael Maschler

doi:10.1075/slsi.32.04mas

The insubordinate - subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax

Yael Maschler

Department of Hebrew Language

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Abstract

This chapter examines the continuum stretching between Hebrew syntactically integrated and unintegrated ('insubordinate') she-'that/which/who'-clauses produced following final/continuing intonation contours in naturally-occurring interaction. Leaving aside modal insubordinate she-clauses, I show that in all of these cases she- ties back to an immediately prior stretch of interaction - verbal and/or embodied - and projects an elaboration or evaluation of it, without much concern about which particular type of complex construction - relative, complement, or adverbial (if any) - is being created. The data suggest that rather than viewing insubordinate clauses as imperfect realizations of the canonical 'subordinate' variety resulting from the disintegration of complex syntactic patterns, canonical, syntactically integrated varieties of Hebrew relative, complement, and adverbial clauses may be regarded as grammaticizations from syntactically less integrated varieties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Emergent Syntax for Conversation. Clausal patterns and the organization of action
Editors	Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindstrom, Leelo Keevallik
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	87-125
Number of pages	39
ISBN (Electronic)	9789027261939
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.32.04mas
State	Published - 2020

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Name	Studies in Language and Social Interaction
Volume	32
ISSN (Print)	1879-3983

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
1. I thank Jan Lindström, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Paul Hopper, Sandy Thompson, and Betty Couper-Kuhlen for their constructive comments on earlier versions of this chapter. This study was supported by the Israel Science Foundation, grants no. 887/12 and 1233/16 to Yael Maschler.

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© 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Keywords

Grammaticization
Hebrew
Insubordination
Prosody
Subordination

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Maschler, Y. (2020). The insubordinate - subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax. In Y. Maschler, S. P. Doehler, J. Lindstrom, & L. Keevallik (Eds.), Emergent Syntax for Conversation. Clausal patterns and the organization of action (pp. 87-125). (Studies in Language and Social Interaction; Vol. 32). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.32.04mas

Maschler, Yael. / The insubordinate - subordinate continuum : Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax. Emergent Syntax for Conversation. Clausal patterns and the organization of action. editor / Yael Maschler ; Simona Pekarek Doehler ; Jan Lindstrom ; Leelo Keevallik. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. pp. 87-125 (Studies in Language and Social Interaction).

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Maschler, Y 2020, The insubordinate - subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax. in Y Maschler, SP Doehler, J Lindstrom & L Keevallik (eds), Emergent Syntax for Conversation. Clausal patterns and the organization of action. Studies in Language and Social Interaction, vol. 32, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 87-125. https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.32.04mas

The insubordinate - subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax. / Maschler, Yael.
Emergent Syntax for Conversation. Clausal patterns and the organization of action. ed. / Yael Maschler; Simona Pekarek Doehler; Jan Lindstrom; Leelo Keevallik. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. p. 87-125 (Studies in Language and Social Interaction; Vol. 32).

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Maschler Y. The insubordinate - subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax. In Maschler Y, Doehler SP, Lindstrom J, Keevallik L, editors, Emergent Syntax for Conversation. Clausal patterns and the organization of action. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2020. p. 87-125. (Studies in Language and Social Interaction). doi: 10.1075/slsi.32.04mas

The insubordinate - subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax

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