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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 101Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 311 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110581034
  • 9783110581058
  • 9783110583571
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  • 400
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.
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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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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