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Akan57conjunction1
Amharic57chaining1
Amharic57Sub-Main1
Ika57conjunction1
Bernese German57conjunction1
Bwamu57conjunction1
Czech57conjunction1
Jula57conjunction1
Jula57chaining1
Jula57juxtapos1
Jula57Main-Sub1
Finnish57conjunction1UP
Finnish57chaining1UP
Finnish57juxtapos1UP
Finnish57Sub-Main1UP
Finnish57Main-Sub1UP
Gagauz57conjunction1
Mongolian57chaining1NA
Mongolian57Sub-Main1NA
Linxia Chinese57chaining1
Huarong Chinese57conjunction1
Huarong Chinese57juxtapos1
Ancash Quechua57chaining1UP
Ancash Quechua57Sub-Main1UP
Hungarian57conjunction1UP
Hungarian57juxtapos1UP
Hungarian57Sub-Main1UP
Hungarian57Main-Sub1UP
Indonesian57conjunction1UP
Indonesian57juxtapos1UP
Italian57conjunction1
Jejueo57chaining1UP
Jejueo57juxtapos1UP
Jejueo57Sub-Main1UP
Jejueo57Main-Sub1UP
Kangle Chinese57juxtapos1
Kazakh57chaining1UP
Kazakh57Sub-Main1UP
Standard Mandarin57conjunction1UP
Standard Mandarin57juxtapos1UP
Standard Mandarin57Sub-Main1UP
Marathi57conjunction1UP
Marathi57chaining1UP
Marathi57Sub-Main1UP
Mopan Maya57conjunction1UP
Mopan Maya57juxtapos1UP
Mooré57conjunction1
Kurux57conjunction1UP
Kurux57chaining1UP
Kurux57Sub-Main1UP
Nepali57chaining1
Nepali57Sub-Main1
Nepali57Main-Sub1
Newari57chaining1UP
Newari57Sub-Main1UP
Turkish57conjunction1
Turkish57Sub-Main1
Polish57conjunction1
Slovene57conjunction1
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian57conjunction1P
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian57juxtapos1S
Cochabamba Quechua57chaining1
English57conjunction1UP
English57chaining1UP
English57Sub-Main1P
English57Main-Sub1S
Standard German57conjunction1UP
Standard German57chaining1UP
Standard German57Sub-Main1UP
Standard German57Main-Sub1UP
Thai57conjunction1UP
Thai57Sub-Main1UP
Thai57Main-Sub1UP
Tunen57conjunction1UP
Tunen57juxtapos1UP
Upper Sorbian57conjunction1
Vietnamese57conjunction1UP
Vietnamese57Sub-Main1UP
Vietnamese57Main-Sub1UP
Oromo57conjunction1
Oromo57chaining1
Oromo57Sub-Main1P
Oromo57Main-Sub1S

(57) How is the coordination of clauses accomplished?

Alternatives to be checked: conjunction / clause chaining / juxtaposition / other

If there is a dependent clause, does it precede or follow the main clause? Sub-Main / Main-Sub

Evenki (Tungusic)

Etyrken (bira-tki ngene-d'ene) [umnet dylgan-ma doldy-ksa] [ugiski iche-kse] [il-la-n].
old.man river-ALL go-CVB suddenly voice-ACC hear-CVB upwards look.at-CVB stand.up-NFUT-3SG

'The old man (while going to the river) suddenly heard the voice, (and) looked upwards, and stood still.' (Nedjalkov)

Evenki: clause chaining, preceding

English: conjunctions, no dependent clause

Explanation: Working definition of 'clause chaining': The coordination of clauses is accom-plished not with conjunctions, such as and, but with the help of special verb forms that are not fully finite (e.g., Longacre). These are also sometimes referred to as 'Asian converbs' (e.g., Bickel).

In Evenki, the fully specified verb is il-la-n, which is marked for tense and person. The dependent and non-fully specified verbs are marked with the 'converb' -ksA, only indicating anteriority and 'same subject'.

If the language uses 'converbs' for both clause chaining and adverbial subordination (56), please describe whether this is accomplished with the same or different forms.

Background: There might be a correlation of clause chaining with O-V order. The order of dependent clause and main clause might also correlate with O-V/V-O.