Subordination in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Preface
Contents
Subordination, or the permanent allure of the “adjacent possible”
Part I: Diachronic perspectives on subordination
From flying Sancho to swooning Altisidora: The changing use of premodifying present participles in three English translations of Cervantes’ Don Quijote
Because science! Notes on a variable conjunction
That-clauses as complements of verbs or nouns
Semantic roles as a factor affecting complement choice: a case study with data from COHA
Expanding the type you can’t help laughing
-Ing clauses in spoken English: structure, usage and recent change
Resourceful ways of recruiting members: The origin and development of Mental zero-Secondary Predicate Constructions
The rise of long catenative constructions in Modern English: new sub-schemas and new stylistic options
Part II: Subordination in Present-day Englishes
Catenative get in World Englishes
Adverbial subordination across variety types: A synchronic analysis of the syntax and semantics of since- and while-clauses in ENL, ESL, and EFL
Whatever the specific circumstances, …: A Construction Grammar perspective of wh-ever clauses in English
A sociolinguistic study of relativizers in spoken Philippines English
Subject index