Rethinking the coordinate-subordinate dichotomy interpersonal grammar and the analysis of adverbial clauses in English - Verstraete, Jean-Christophe 1976- (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-314) and index
This study argues that the domain traditionally covered by 'coordination' and 'subordination' in English can be neatly subdivided into four distinct construction types which differ in the grammatical encoding of speaker-attitude and speaker-interlocutor interaction. The four semantically, syntactically and pragmatically coherent construction types make sense of the many conflicting criteria proposed in the literature to distinguish subordinate constructions from coordinate ones