Subordination in English : : Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives / / ed. by Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Ignacio Palacios-Martínez.
This book provides a collection of articles on subordination in English framed from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. It covers ample areas of the history of the major subordinated structures of English and their recent development in various native and non-native varieties. Most contr...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 311 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Subordination, or the permanent allure of the “adjacent possible” -- Part I: Diachronic perspectives on subordination -- From flying Sancho to swooning Altisidora: The changing use of premodifying present participles in three English translations of Cervantes’ Don Quijote -- Because science! Notes on a variable conjunction -- That-clauses as complements of verbs or nouns -- Semantic roles as a factor affecting complement choice: a case study with data from COHA -- Expanding the type you can’t help laughing -- -Ing clauses in spoken English: structure, usage and recent change -- Resourceful ways of recruiting members: The origin and development of Mental zero-Secondary Predicate Constructions -- The rise of long catenative constructions in Modern English: new sub-schemas and new stylistic options -- Part II: Subordination in Present-day Englishes -- Catenative get in World Englishes -- Adverbial subordination across variety types: A synchronic analysis of the syntax and semantics of since- and while-clauses in ENL, ESL, and EFL -- Whatever the specific circumstances, …: A Construction Grammar perspective of wh-ever clauses in English -- A sociolinguistic study of relativizers in spoken Philippines English -- Subject index |
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Summary: | This book provides a collection of articles on subordination in English framed from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. It covers ample areas of the history of the major subordinated structures of English and their recent development in various native and non-native varieties. Most contributions are based on large electronic databases and corpora of written and spoken texts. The book focuses on the continuum that links subordinated and coordinated structures in a fluid way, shows their permanent state of flux, and sheds light on the whole system's dynamic essence by discussing a large number of explanatory principles at work in shaping it. Many of these are well-known from the grammaticalization and the Construction Grammar theories, such as the concepts of attractor, multi-sourcing, inheritance, categorial incursion, metaphorization or exaptation. This volume represents the latest trends in the field by some of its most prestigious specialists. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110583571 9783110762488 9783110719550 9783110742978 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604078 9783110603170 |
ISSN: | 1434-3452 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110583571 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Ignacio Palacios-Martínez. |