Subordination in English : : Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives / / ed. by Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Ignacio Palacios-Martínez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aarts, Bas,; Acuña-Fariña, Carlos,; Bergs, Alexander,; Bowie, Jill,; Bruckmaier, Elisabeth,; Cuyckens, Hubert,; Denison, David,; D’hoedt, Frauke,; Leuckert, Sven,; Mair, Christian,; Oppliger, Rahel,; Palacios-Martínez, Ignacio,; Rohdenburg, Günter,; Rudanko, Juhani,; Seoane, Elena,; Smet, Hendrik De,; Suárez-Gómez, Cristina,; Wallis, Sean,
• HerausgeberIn: Acuña-Fariña, Carlos,; Palacios-Martínez, Ignacio ,; Seoane, Elena,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 101
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 311 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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