Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Abstract -- Part I: Clause Chains, Medials, and Converbs -- 1. Introducing Clause Chains -- 2. Properties of Medial Constructions -- 3. Previous Analyses -- 4. A Derived Coordination Approach to Medial Clauses -- 5. Multiple Medial Clauses -- 6. Medials Remaining in Situ: Converbs -- 7. Two Case Studies: Tsakhur and Korean -- 8. Crosslinguistic Variation of Clause Chaining Constructions -- 9. A New Perspective on Switch-Reference -- 10. Summary of Part I -- Part II: Asymmetric Coordination -- 1. Introducing Asymmetric Coordination -- 2. Scene-Setting Coordination -- 3. Consecutive Coordination -- 4. Conditional Coordination -- 5. Summary of Part II -- Part III: Theoretical Discussion and Open Issues -- 1. Movement to Spec&P and its trigger -- 2. The Coordinate Structure Constraint as a Derivational Principle -- 3. The Merge over Move-Principle -- 4. Transparent Adjuncts, Opaque Adjuncts -- 5. Constraining the Mechanism: Avoiding Overgeneration -- 6. Syntactic Evidence for Asymmetric Coordination Phrases -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index