Subordination in English : : Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives /

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
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 311 p.)
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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

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