TY - JOUR

T1 - Insubordinated concessive imperatives

AU - Holvoet, Axel

AU - Daugavet, Anna

AU - Lindström, Liina

N1 - Holvoet, A., Daugavet, A., & Lindström, L. (2019). Insubordinated concessive imperatives. Baltic Linguistics, 10, 307-354. https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.367

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The article deals with a constructional idiom attested in both Baltic languages as well as in the neighbouring Slavonic and Fennic languages and in Yiddish, containing as its central component what is argued to be an insubordinated imperatival concessive clause and characterising a situation by hyperbolically describing the consequences conceivably flowing from it or a course of action it could be imagined to induce. This construction, which is clearly an areal feature, has a stable constructional meaning but its formal shape is extraordinarily fluid and differentiated. It also displays a considerable degree of cross-linguistic variation partly resulting from separate developments and partly from interaction with other constructional idioms as well as with other languages. The article deals with the structure and origin of the construction and gives an overview of its variation across languages.

AB - The article deals with a constructional idiom attested in both Baltic languages as well as in the neighbouring Slavonic and Fennic languages and in Yiddish, containing as its central component what is argued to be an insubordinated imperatival concessive clause and characterising a situation by hyperbolically describing the consequences conceivably flowing from it or a course of action it could be imagined to induce. This construction, which is clearly an areal feature, has a stable constructional meaning but its formal shape is extraordinarily fluid and differentiated. It also displays a considerable degree of cross-linguistic variation partly resulting from separate developments and partly from interaction with other constructional idioms as well as with other languages. The article deals with the structure and origin of the construction and gives an overview of its variation across languages.

KW - Lithuanian

KW - Latvian

KW - Russian

KW - Belarussian

KW - Ukrainian

KW - Estonian

KW - Yiddish

KW - concessives

KW - insubordination

KW - scalar particles

KW - constructional idiom

UR - https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/bl/article/view/367

M3 - Article

SP - 307

EP - 354

JO - Baltic Linguistics

JF - Baltic Linguistics

SN - 2081-7533

IS - 10

ER -