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Subordination in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Subordination in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Seoane, Elena
Acuña-Fariña, Carlos
Palacios-Martínez, Ignacio

Hardcover

Series: Topics in English Linguistics, Book 101

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110581035
ISBN13: 9783110581034
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jul 9 2018
Pages: 319
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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