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- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Conceptualizations of Grammar in the History of English Grammaticology
- Syntactic Argumentation
- Grammar and the Use of Data
- Grammar and Corpus Methodology
- Cognitive Linguistic Approaches
- Constructional Approaches
- Dependency and Valency Approaches
- Generative Approaches
- Functional Approaches
- Modern and Traditional Descriptive Approaches
- Theoretical Approaches to Morphology
- Inflection and Derivation
- Compounds
- Word Classes
- Phrase Structure
- Noun Phrases
- Clause Structure, Complements, and Adjuncts
- Clause Types and Speech Act Functions
- Tense and Aspect
- Mood and Modality
- Subordination and Coordination
- Information Structure
- Grammar and Lexis
- Grammar and Phonology
- Grammar and Meaning
- Grammar and Discourse
- Change in Grammar
- Regional Varieties of English: Non-standard grammatical features
- Global Variation in the Anglophone World
- Genre Variation
- Literary Variation
- References
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Abstract and Keywords
This chapter describes the forms and functions of the main types of subordinate clauses, as well as various types of both phrasal and clausal coordination. The two main types of subordination, modification and complementation, are distinguished in relation to both finite and non-finite subordinate clauses. Various means of signalling subordination are described. It is shown how subordinate non-finite clauses, which lack primary tense, are largely dependent on the main clause predicate for their temporal interpretation, and how understood subjects in subordinate clauses may be coreferential with various nominals in the main clause. As for coordination, both bare heads and heads with dependents may be coordinated and, although we normally coordinate like with like, the items being coordinated do not necessarily have to be identical in form, nor indeed in function. Some constructions are discussed that straddle the binary distinction between coordination and subordination.
Keywords: subordination, coordination, modification, complementation, temporal interpretation, coreferentiality
Thomas Egan is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. His research interests encompass topics within the areas of corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and historical linguistics, including grammaticalization. He is the author of a monograph on complementation, entitled Non-Finite Complementation: A Usage-Based Study of Infinitive and -ing Clauses in English (2008, Rodopi). More recently he has (co-)authored some dozen articles contrasting various prepositional constructions in English and French and/or Swedish and Norwegian.
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Conceptualizations of Grammar in the History of English Grammaticology
- Syntactic Argumentation
- Grammar and the Use of Data
- Grammar and Corpus Methodology
- Cognitive Linguistic Approaches
- Constructional Approaches
- Dependency and Valency Approaches
- Generative Approaches
- Functional Approaches
- Modern and Traditional Descriptive Approaches
- Theoretical Approaches to Morphology
- Inflection and Derivation
- Compounds
- Word Classes
- Phrase Structure
- Noun Phrases
- Clause Structure, Complements, and Adjuncts
- Clause Types and Speech Act Functions
- Tense and Aspect
- Mood and Modality
- Subordination and Coordination
- Information Structure
- Grammar and Lexis
- Grammar and Phonology
- Grammar and Meaning
- Grammar and Discourse
- Change in Grammar
- Regional Varieties of English: Non-standard grammatical features
- Global Variation in the Anglophone World
- Genre Variation
- Literary Variation
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics