Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Subordination, or the permanent allure of the “adjacent possible” 1
5. Part I: Diachronic perspectives on subordination
6. From flying Sancho to swooning Altisidora: The changing use of premodifying present participles in three English translations of Cervantes’ Don Quijote 25
7. Because science! Notes on a variable conjunction 43
8. That-clauses as complements of verbs or nouns 61
9. Semantic roles as a factor affecting complement choice: a case study with data from COHA 85
10. Expanding the type you can’t help laughing 103
11. -Ing clauses in spoken English: structure, usage and recent change 129
12. Resourceful ways of recruiting members: The origin and development of Mental zero-Secondary Predicate Constructions 155
13. The rise of long catenative constructions in Modern English: new sub-schemas and new stylistic options 185
14. Part II: Subordination in Present-day Englishes
15. Catenative get in World Englishes 211
16. Adverbial subordination across variety types: A synchronic analysis of the syntax and semantics of since- and while-clauses in ENL, ESL, and EFL 235
17. Whatever the specific circumstances, …: A Construction Grammar perspective of wh-ever clauses in English 263
18. A sociolinguistic study of relativizers in spoken Philippines English 285
19. Subject index 309