Comparative Concept: insubordination (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
insubordination (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | insubordination |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | insubordination (str) |
Umbrella
Hierarchy
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)