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I've been searching the internet for an answer to this question, but found only a reference to "cosubordination" being neither coordination nor subordination strictly speaking.

Does "cosubordination" have any relation to clause-chaining?

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It could mean a lot of different things. Terminology gets introduced and forgotten pretty frequently in grammar. If you can't find any reference for it, why worry about it? It's clearly not being used coherently, so it's not a concept one needs to understand. – jlawler Feb 21 at 22:13
Well, I've heard of subordination and I've heard of clause-chaining, and I wanted to see if natural languages had any alternatives to these two. – James Grossmann Feb 23 at 21:57
Ah, RRG. Then it's related to serial verbs and constructions like come sit down, go get me a beer, blow dry your hair, and the like. – jlawler Feb 24 at 1:02

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Cosubordination is similar to both coordinate structure and subordinate structure simultaneously.

http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/LENCA/LENCA-3/information/abstract-files/van-valin-robert-2.pdf

This is most likely what you're looking for.

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