0 present participle of subordinate --
1 to put someone or something into a less important position: --
I suppose that subordinating oneself to natural preconditions was the compensation for the loss of the higher worlds that had informed earlier architectures.
It is interesting to note that the semantic differences all have to do with the subordinating means function, which is syntactically represented as a verb.
This frequently led to local branches ignoring orders from the central bank and subordinating themselves to local influences.
Some other subordinating conjunction markers also originated as nouns and went through a similar process of grammaticalization.
Being a relative element, it has even in this use a subordinating function, since that is part of the function of all relative words.
Yet the subordinating conjunctions, though modestly employed, continued in use.
Their subordinating conjunction is '$e-' or 'ki' (that).
But there were also uses, such as the comparative and the subordinating conjunction, which defy even this pragmatic-level categorization.
