Contents -- Abbreviations -- Abstract -- Part I: Clause Chains, Medials, and Converbs -- 1 Introducing Clause Chains -- 2 Properties of Medial Constructions -- 2.1 The Morphological Form of Medial Clauses -- 2.2 The Syntactic Properties of Medial Clauses -- 2.3 Summary -- 3 Previous Analyses -- 3.1 Subordination Approaches -- 3.2 Coordination Approaches -- 4 A Derived Coordination Approach to Medial Clauses -- 4.1 Theoretical Background -- 4.1.1 The Dichotomy of Coordination and Subordination -- 4.1.2 The Derived Coordination Account -- 4.2 A Derived Coordination Account of Medial Constructions -- 4.2.1 The Category of Medial Clauses -- 4.2.2 Applying the Theory -- 4.3 Deriving the Properties of Medial Constructions -- 4.3.1 Morphological Dependence -- 4.3.2 Extraposition and Center Embedding -- 4.3.3 Backward Pronominalization -- 4.3.4 Extraction -- 4.4 Summary -- 5 MultipleMedial Clauses -- 6 Medials Remaining in Situ: Converbs -- 6.1 General Properties of Converb Clauses -- 6.2 Applying Clausal Relation Tests -- 6.3 Deriving the Syntactic Properties of Converb Clauses -- 7 Two Case Studies: Tsakhur and Korean -- 7.1 Two Types of Converbs in Tsakhur -- 7.2 Converbs and Chaining in Korean -- 8 Crosslinguistic Variation of Clause Chaining Constructions -- 8.1 Parametrizing the Derived Coordination Approach -- 8.2 Variation of Scopal Properties -- 8.3 Extraction -- 8.4 More Parameters -- 8.5 Summary -- 9 A New Perspective on Switch-Reference -- 10 Summary of Part I -- Part II: Asymmetric Coordination -- 1 Introducing Asymmetric Coordination -- 2 Scene-Setting Coordination -- 2.1 The properties of Scene-Setting Coordination -- 2.2 Previous Analyses of SceCo -- 2.2.1 A subordination analysis: Wiklund (1996,2007) -- 2.2.2 A coordination analysis: De Vos (2009).

2.3 A Derived Coordination Account of Scene-Setting Coordination -- 2.3.1 The Category of SceCo conjuncts -- 2.3.2 The Analysis of SceCo constructions -- 2.4 SceCo with Multiple Conjuncts -- 3 Consecutive Coordination -- 3.1 Integrating ConsecCo Constructions into the Theory of SceCo -- 3.2 Mixed Cases of SceCo and ConsecCo -- 4 Conditional Coordination -- 4.1 Some Syntactic Properties of CondCo -- 4.2 Previous Analyses -- 4.2.1 Culicover & Jackendo (1997) -- 4.2.2 Keshet (2013) -- 4.3 A Derived Coordination Account to CondCo -- 4.3.1 The Analysis of CondCo -- 4.3.2 Deriving the Properties of CondCo -- 4.4 Combining Di erent Cases of Asymmetric Coordination -- 4.5 Summary -- 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.