Subordination - nominalization

Explicitness of connective

Formatives to embed clauses. The first may be exemplified by English that, German daß, Welsh a and Nahuatl in. Here a demonstrative is used to announce the embedded clause. Then a mecha­nism sets in which prescribes that whatever is preceded (or followed, as the case may be) by a demonstra­tive as a coconstituent must be a nominal. So the embedded clause is nominalized by coercion, and the demonstrative degenerates to a mere subordina­tor.

Fusion of clauses

Causative constructions

Periphrastic voice

Reduction of the clause

Verb serialization

Cabecar light verbs and postverbal clitics.

Orientation and voice

Genesis of auxiliaries in Yucatec

Periphrastic aspect.

Shrinking of scope