Subordination in English - Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carlo Acuña-Fariña (Editor), Carlos Acuña-Fariña (Editor), Ignacio Palacios-Martínez (Editor), Elena Seoane (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2018
• EAN: 9783110581034
• ISBN: 978-3-11-058103-4
• No. of pages: 311
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 19 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 584 g
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; Topics in English Linguistics; ISSN; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], 101
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics