Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Insubordination: Central issues and open questions -- 1. Sources and mechanisms -- 2. Insubordination and the contextually sensitive emergence of if-requests in Swedish and Finnish institutional talk-in-interaction -- 3. Adverbial semi-insubordination constructions in Swedish: Synchrony and diachrony -- 4. On illusory insubordination and semiinsubordination in Slavic: Independent infinitives, clause-initial particles and predicatives put to the test -- 5. Delimiting the class: A typology of English insubordination -- 6. Patterns of (in)dependence -- 7. Two constructions, one syntactic form: Perceptual prosodic differences between elliptical and independent <si + V indicative> clauses in Spanish -- 8. Does structural binding correlate with degrees of functional dependence? -- 9. Optative and evaluative que 'that' sentences in Spanish -- 10. When insubordination is an artefact (of sentence type theories) -- 11. Apparent insubordination as discourse patterns in French -- Index