peer reviewedIn this article, we investigate the development of complex subordinators from noun complement clauses in English, basing ourselves on the analysis of synchronic data from the COBUILD corpus. We first present a breadth study of complex subordinators originating in “in þ NP þ that/of-clause”- syntagms and show how these align themselves with oppositions within the causal, temporal and comparative subordinator paradigms. We then offer an in-depth study of the cluster of strings “in (the) hope(s) that/of”, arguing that the subordinators they yield enter as marked members into the subparadigm of purposive conjunctions, which they semantically enrich through lexical and structural persistence
By subordination, we mean a syntactic mechanism by which clauses are combined. As opposed to coordin...
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The present contribution examines object complement clauses from the perspective of constituent-orde...
The present contribution examines object complement clauses from the perspective of constituent-orde...
In addition to a classification in sentence types [Syntax – Chapter 1] (declaratives, imperatives, i...
I present evidence in this paper for a universal preference for clause-initial adverbial subordinato...
Complement relations are widely identified as a type of subordination, which is traditionally define...
Previous work has shown that the difficulty associated with processing complex semantic expressions ...
A number of recent analyses propose that so-called noun complement clauses should be analyzed as a t...
It has been generally assumed, since the groundbreaking study by Ross [1], that major types of subor...
This article focuses on complex NP constructions of the form ‘determiner (+ adjective) + noun (+ com...
In this paper, complement clauses in spoken American English are analyzed based on the Language int...
This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a ...
The dissertation provides a cross-linguistic investigation into the grammatical structure of complem...
By subordination, we mean a syntactic mechanism by which clauses are combined. As opposed to coordin...
International audienceThis article shows that a hitherto unattested construction type-namely, adverb...
The present paper offers a synchronic and diachronic analysis of integrated participle clauses or I...
The present contribution examines object complement clauses from the perspective of constituent-orde...
The present contribution examines object complement clauses from the perspective of constituent-orde...
In addition to a classification in sentence types [Syntax – Chapter 1] (declaratives, imperatives, i...
I present evidence in this paper for a universal preference for clause-initial adverbial subordinato...
Complement relations are widely identified as a type of subordination, which is traditionally define...
Previous work has shown that the difficulty associated with processing complex semantic expressions ...
A number of recent analyses propose that so-called noun complement clauses should be analyzed as a t...
It has been generally assumed, since the groundbreaking study by Ross [1], that major types of subor...
This article focuses on complex NP constructions of the form ‘determiner (+ adjective) + noun (+ com...
In this paper, complement clauses in spoken American English are analyzed based on the Language int...
This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a ...
The dissertation provides a cross-linguistic investigation into the grammatical structure of complem...
By subordination, we mean a syntactic mechanism by which clauses are combined. As opposed to coordin...
International audienceThis article shows that a hitherto unattested construction type-namely, adverb...
The present paper offers a synchronic and diachronic analysis of integrated participle clauses or I...