0 present participle of subordinate
1 to put someone or something into a less important position:
Authentic texts also displayed a tendency toward having a higher incidence of adjectives and subordinating conjunctions and prepositions, but these findings only approached significance.
Certainly, subordinating local definitions to the dictum of the science of race required negotiation, and in some cases even training.
Although these subordinating conjunction markers have lost their criterion of identity in semantics, they still retain noun-like properties in syntax.
In the following examples, it may appear that these subordinating conjunctions can be modified by a demonstrative determiner.
The subordinating conjunction in this case is a member of the set subordinator.
Coherence is lost by calling upon the coercive power of the state to protect against verbal oppression, thereby subordinating and marginalizing some members of society.
This formalism does not specify the type of internal argument selected by the subordinating conjunction.
But there were also uses, such as the comparative and the subordinating conjunction, which defy even this pragmatic-level categorization.
