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| Reference : Complex subordinators derived from noun complement clauses |
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| Arts & humanities : Languages & linguistics | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/99564 | |||
| Complex subordinators derived from noun complement clauses | |
| English | |
Brems, Lieselotte  [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des langues et littératures modernes > Langue anglaise & Linguist.synchro.& diachro.de l'anglais >] | |
| Davidse, Kristin [university of Leuven > > > >] | |
| 2010 | |
| Acta Linguistica Hafniensia : International Journal of Linguistics | |
| Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen | |
| 42 | |
| 2 | |
| 101-116 | |
| International | |
| 0374-0463 | |
| Copenhagen | |
| Denmark | |
| [en] complex subordinators ; paradigmaticity ; grammaticalization | |
| [en] In 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. | |
| Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (1.2.711.10.N.00) ; Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP) P6/44 ; HUM2007-60706/FILO of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and the European Regional Development Fund | |
| Researchers ; Professionals | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/99564 |
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