TY - BOOK ID - 85286799 TI - Subordination in English AU - Aarts, Bas AU - Acuña-Fariña, Carlos AU - Bergs, Alexander AU - Bowie, Jill AU - Bruckmaier, Elisabeth AU - Cuyckens, Hubert AU - Denison, David AU - D'Hoedt, Frauke AU - Leuckert, Sven AU - Oppliger, Rahel AU - Palacios-Martínez, Ignacio AU - Rohdenburg, Günter AU - Rudanko, Juhani AU - Seoane, Elena AU - Smet, Hendrik De AU - Suárez-Gómez, Cristina AU - Wallis, Sean AU - Mair, Christian PY - 2018 SN - 9783110583571 9783110581058 9783110581034 3110581051 3110583577 3110581035 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - English language KW - Subordination (Linguistics) KW - Subordinate constructions KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Subordination KW - Syntax KW - E-books KW - Germanic languages KW - Linguistics KW - Philology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85286799 AB - 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. ER -