Comparative Concept: insubordination (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
insubordination (str)
Typ | strategy |
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Alias(se) | insubordination |
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Definition
the recruitment of deranked - clause constructions to express a nondeclarative main clause function. Example: No smoking recruits the English Gerund Verb form ending in -ing in order to express an imperative. (Section 15.2.3)