Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Subordination, or the permanent allure of the "adjacent possible" -- Part I: Diachronic perspectives on subordination -- From flying Sancho to swooning Altisidora: The changing use of premodifying present participles in three English translations of Cervantes' Don Quijote -- Because science! Notes on a variable conjunction -- That-clauses as complements of verbs or nouns -- Semantic roles as a factor affecting complement choice: a case study with data from COHA -- Expanding the type you can't help laughing -- -Ing clauses in spoken English: structure, usage and recent change -- Resourceful ways of recruiting members: The origin and development of Mental zero-Secondary Predicate Constructions -- The rise of long catenative constructions in Modern English: new sub-schemas and new stylistic options -- Part II: Subordination in Present-day Englishes -- Catenative get in World Englishes -- Adverbial subordination across variety types: A synchronic analysis of the syntax and semantics of since- and while-clauses in ENL, ESL, and EFL -- Whatever the specific circumstances, ...: A Construction Grammar perspective of wh-ever clauses in English -- A sociolinguistic study of relativizers in spoken Philippines English -- Subject index