This book explores subjectless ing- and edsupplement constructions in the recent history of English from a corpus-based perspective. Supplements are constructions in the clausal periphery that do not fulfil a core syntactic function within the matrix clause. Their presence (or absence) does not typically have syntactic, semantic or grammatical consequences for either the structure or the interpretation of the clause. Despite their peripheral status, supplements are prototypically linked to the main clause in different respects. The analysis of this nonfinite supplements allows for a better characterisation of the periphery of the clause in terms of more and less prototypical supplements, and describes diachronic variation in Late Modern English and Presentday English along the features that characterize the construction.

Carla Bouzada-Jabois holds a PhD in English linguistics by the Universities of Vigo and KU Leuven. She has a BA in English philology and an MA in advanced English studies with a specialisation in English linguistics. She also has an MA in secondary school and language education. She has been working as an assistant instructor and researcher in different projects. Carla is an active member of the Language Variation and Textual Categorisation research group of the University of Vigo.