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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.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- English language --- Subordination (Linguistics) --- Subordinate constructions --- Grammar, Comparative --- Subordination --- Syntax --- E-books --- Germanic languages --- Linguistics --- Philology

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This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world's languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences. Explanations for significantly recurrent coding patterns are couched in a usage-based approach to language structure, which pays due attention to the cognitive and communicative pressures on usage events involving purpose clauses, to frequency distributions of grammatical choices in corpora, and to the ways in which usage preferences conventionalize in pathways of diachronic change. The book integrates diverse previous strands of research on purpose clauses with a thorough empirical analysis in its own right and thus reflects the current state of the art of crosslinguistic research into this distinctive type of adverbial clause.An appendix to A Typology of Purpose Clauses can be found on the author's website: www.karsten-schmidtke.net/purpose.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Clauses. --- Subordinate constructions. --- Grammar --- Subordination (Linguistics) --- Clauses --- Subordinate constructions --- Syntax --- Sentences --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Grammaire --- Subordination (linguistique). --- Verbes. --- Genre (linguistique) --- Enseignants --- Étude et enseignement. --- Manuels d'enseignement --- Étude et enseignement (primaire). --- Formation.

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This volume includes some of the contributions from renowned experts to the 3rd and 4th International Colloquium MarDisT held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra in 2017 and 2018. The contributions address different languages, theoretical perspectives, genres of text, translation problems, and difficulties in SLA. Discourse markers are however the common denominator. The wide range of issues covered will certainly inspire further research projects.

Denial --- Code-switching --- Literary translation --- L2 acquisition --- Discourse markers --- Coordination --- Juxtaposition --- Metadiscursive functions --- Conjunction --- Hermeneutics --- Interpretation --- Onomasiological approach --- Translation --- Rectificat --- Creativity --- Subordination

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This monograph explores the different types of clausal relations in the world's languages. In the recent literature, there have been claims that the strict dichotomy of subordination and coordination cannot be maintained since some constructions seem to be in between these two categories. This study investigates these constructions in detail. The first part is concerned with clause chaining constructions, while the second is concerned with different cases of asymmetric coordination in English. In both parts, it is shown that the different tests to distinguish clausal relations indeed yield different results for the specific constructions. This poses a severe challenge for the established theories of clausal relations. However, as it is argued, recent analyses of coordination provide for the possibility to map a subordinate structure onto a coordinate one by means of regular transformational rules. It is shown that a single movement step derives all the peculiar properties of the phenomena in question. This book thus provides the first comprehensive solution for a long-standing problem in theoretical syntax.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Coordination (Linguistics) --- Parallelism (Linguistics) --- Clauses --- Generative grammar --- Clauses. --- Coordinate constructions. --- Derivation --- Syntax --- Sentences --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Clausal Relation. --- Coordination, Minimalist Framework. --- Subordination. --- Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft --- Clausal Relation; Subordination; Coordination, Minimalist Framework --- 1561: Hardcover, Softcover / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft