Subordination in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

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Notes

1 We are grateful to Javier Pérez-Guerra and Sara M. Pons-Sanz for their corrections and valuable suggestions on an earlier draft of this book review, and to Emma Keck and Judith A. Redman for their meticulous English corrections.

2 Teresa Fanego currently works as Emerita Professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She became a full professor in 1990, the first chair of English language and linguistics to be awarded in the autonomous region of Galicia. Her research interests include English historical syntax, corpus linguistics, Shakespeare’s grammar, grammaticalization theory and Construction Grammar as applied to the development of English and, more recently, the development of English legal discourse. She became the president of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in 2019.

3 The ‘because X’ construction is analysed as more abstract (mesoconstruction) and instantiates other constructions (microconstructions) such as ‘because + noun’, ‘because + adjective’ and ‘because + particle’.

4 This phrase, which is also used by the editors of the volume to categorise changes in English subordination, is defined (as applied to linguistics) as follows: ‘Each step in the process […] built upon previous changes, and became a stepping-stone itself for new developments’ (pp. 174–177).

5 It is very unfortunate that some of the ovals containing the name of the variables are not correctly tagged. Ctree in Figure 1 (p. 253) uses the label ‘medium’ instead of ‘meaning’ for node 1 and ctree in Figure 6 (p. 257) wrongly classifies node 3 as ‘medium’ instead of ‘status’.