Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Research Background 1.2 Purpose of the Study 1.3 Organization of the Book Chapter 2 A Systemic Functional Approach to Clause Combining in English 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Overview of Clause Combining 2.2.1 Parataxis 2.2.2 Hypotaxis 2.2.3 Embedding 2.3 Cline 2.4 Cline in Clause Combining 2.5 A Sketch of Grammatical Metaphor 2.5.1 Ideational Metaphor and Interpersonal Metaphor 2.5.2 Textual Metaphor 2.6 Summary Chapter 3 Research Design 3.1 Research Questions 3.2 Research Methods 3.3 Data Collection 3.4 Data Processing Chapter 4 Genre Distributions of Clause Combining 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Crown Corpus-Based Research on Clause Combining 4.2.1 Overall Frequency Distribution 4.2.2 Genre Distribution of Overall Frequency 4.2.3 Genre Distribution of Logico-semantic Relations 4.2.4 Genre Distribution of Embedding 4.2.5 Existing Questions 4.3 Research Based on the BNC and the COCA 4.3.1 Genre Distribution of Expansion 4.3.2 Genre Distribution of Projection 4.3.3 Genre Distribution of Embedding 4.4 Summary Chapter 5 Diachronic Distribution of Clause Combining 5.1 Diachronic Distribution of Overall Frequency 5.2 Diachronic Distribution of Expansion 5.3 Diachronic Distribution of Projection 5.4 Diachronic Distribution of Embedding 5.5 Diachronic Distribution of Non-finite Clauses 5.5.1 Diachronic Distribution of Non-finite Clauses of Expansion 5.5.2 Diachronic Distribution of Non-finite Embedded Clauses 5.5.3 Diachronic Distribution of Personal Pronoun Subjects of Absolute Clauses 5.6 Summary Chapter 6 Grammatical Metaphor in Clause Combining 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Creation of Grammatical Metaphor 6.3 Types of Grammatical Metaphor in Clause Combining 6.3.1 Ideational Metaphor 6.3.2 Textual Metaphor 6.4 Diachronic Distribution of Grammatical Metaphor in Clause Combining 6.4.1 Diachronic Distribution of Experiential Metaphor 6.4.2 Diachronic Distribution of Logical Metaphor 6.4.3 Diachronic Distribution of Cohesive Metaphor 6.5 Genre Distribution of Grammatical Metaphor in Clause Combining 6.5.1 Genre Distribution of Experiential Metaphor 6.5.2 Genre Distribution of Logical Metaphor 6.5.3 Genre Distribution of Cohesive Metaphor 6.6 Summary Chapter 7 Conclusion 7.1 Research Findings 7.2 Limitations and Suggestions 7.2.1 Limitations 7.2.2 Further Research References Appendix 1: CLAWS 7 Tagset Appendix 2: POS List Appendix 3: Query Syntax Appendix 4: Systems for Statistics Appendix 5: Tables of Corpus Data Statistics